Cte Globe.
W. Lewis, Editor and Proprietor
HUNTINGDON, PA
Wednesday morning, Nov, 4, 1863.
Our Flag Forever
"1 know of 730 mode in which a loyal citi
zen may so well demonstrate his devotion to
his country as by sustaining the Flag the
Constitution and the Union, under all circum
stances, and UNDER. EVERY ADMINISTRATION,
REGARDLESS OF PARTY POLITICS, AGAINST ALI,
ASSAILANTS, At RODE AND ABROAD."
A. DOUGLAS.
38,268 Men.
This is the quota of Pennsylvania
under the late call of the President
for 300,000 volunteers to recruit the
regiments now in the field, and we
have until the fifth day of January
next, to furnish the men. On that
day, the President announces, that a
draft will commence for any deficien
cy that may then exist in the number
of men called for. We do not know
the number of men this county will
have to furnish, but suppose it will be
somewhere in the neighborhood of
three hundred. Whatever the number
May be, it is not too soon for Union
Men to think and act immediately.—
Those who cannot go themselves
should contribute of their moans libe
rally to raise a good bounty that
would induce those to go who are wil
ling and can go. The Government
must have the men—the brave men
now in the field must be strengthened
—and the men can be furnished before
the sth of January if every good Uni
on citizen of the county will work
with a will and with his means to an
swer the call of our President and our
brave soldiers. What would our homes
be worth to us if the rebellion should
succeed? To defeat the rebellion
fresh men must take the places of the
killed and wounded, and of the thous
ands whose term of enlistment will ex
pire in the spring.
"PATRIOTISM emanates from the
heart, fills the soul, infuses itself into
the whole man, and speaks and acts
the same language. A friend of his
country in war will feel, speak, and
act for his country, revere his coun
try's cause, and hate his country's
America wants no friend,
acknowledges the fidelity of no citi
zen, who, after war is declared,' con
demns the justice of her cause, and
sympathizes with the enemy. All
such are traitors in their hearts."
These principles were declared by
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS ; they are not
the principles of the "" Democracy"
which Governor Seymour, and would
be-Governor Woodward; and who
over reveres the memory of DOUGLAS
BMA despise the policy which these
men advocate. The Democracy of
DOUGLAS is embodied in the Union
party which swept through Ohio like
a storm, and grandly triumphed in
Pennsylvania. It is the very opposite
of the bogus Democracy which oppo
ses the Government so meanly. Be
tween DOUGLAS Democracy and Val
landigham "Democracy," what Demo
crat can fail to choose? The Union
War Democracy will all follow the
teaching of Douglas, and the Disunion
Peace Rebel-sympathizing bogus De
mocracy will follow the teachings of
Yallandigham.
If6r Fraud ! fraud !! fraud 1 ! ! is the
cry of the Opposition. Every disloyal
paper printed in the State, to keep
their spirits up, and to encourage their
friends to continue in the ranks of the
Southdown bogus Democratic organi
zation, allege that Curtin was elected
by fraud, and promise that at the next
election they will certainty bo success
ful. If the increased vote polled for
Curtin by the Union party over the
vote he received throe years ago, is
evidence that ho received fraudulent
votes, then it might also be said that
the increased vote Woodward received
over Foster's vote three years asp was
also fraudulent. We know that thou
sands of loyal Democrats all over the
State voted for Curtin, and yet the
vote for Woodward is over 23,000
more than was the vote for Foster.—
If there were any fraudulent votes giv
en at the late election; the frgures for
Woodward show who received thorn.
Important Decision.
The Provost Marshal General, Jas.
B. Fry, in a letter to an Assistant Pro
vost Marshal General, in New York,
informs him that the President has
.ordered that every person who has
paid the three hundred dollars commu
tation shall receive ,tho same credit
therefor as if he had furnished a sub
stitute and was exonerated from the
military service for the time for which
ho was drafted, to wit; for three years.
The Official Vote of Ohio,
The official home vote of Ohio gives
13rough 61,752 majority. The total
vote of the State is 435,427. The sol
diers' vote is yet to be added.
There was no truth in the rumor
that Gov. Curtin was dead. Ho is
enjoying good health_
Why "Democrats" Favor Volunteering.
We have said that the object of the
"Democratic" politicians, says the
North American, opposing a draft and
advocating the volunteer system was
to avoid taking the "Democrats" into
the army, and keep up the drain of the
loyal population which has been going
on over since the warbegan. In proof of
this the annexed extract from the edi
torial columns of the Harrisburg Patri
ot and Union, the State organ of the
"Democrats :"
"'MAKE Youn VAUNTING TRUE.'-
We hope to see the Curtinites, the
Loyal Union Leaguers, who have
talked and printed so much in favor
of crushing the wicked rebellion, avail
themselves of the opportunity offered
by the President's proclamation for
'300,000 more,' and rush valiantly to
the field. They are in duty bound to
do so; to make their words good, to
square their practice with their profes
sions, they must do so. Let us see,
Curtin polled over 269,000 votes on
the 13th. More than one half of these
ought to be good fighting men, be
tween the ages of twenty-one and for
ty-five. At least about 150,000 of
them are able bodied, loyal abolition
ists, fit for the field, chuck full of pa
triotism, in favor of all Lincoln's war
measures, wild with anxiety to 'crush
the rebellion,' and panting for confed
erate blood 'as the hart pantoth after
the water brook.' The quota of Penn
sylvania will not exceed 50,000, exact
ly one-third of the 150,000 shoddy
warriors who voted for Curtin. Now,
unless these mon are liars, hypoerits,
base pretenders, or mean, cowardly
wretches, Uncle Abraham's requisi
tion should be filled immediately, or
at least within one month, from their
own ranks, without calling upon a sin
gle 'disloyal copperhead' to shoulder a
musket. They have it in their power
now to serve their country, and prove
the truth of their assertions at the same
time, by falling into the ranks as pri
vates at $23 or $24 per month, and
marching to the front,' away down in
Dixie,' to shoot, flay, disperse and sub
jugate the hated Southrous. Will they
do it? A friend looking over our
shoulder whispers, 'Of course they
will.' Wo doubt it, but shall wait to
see."
-STEPHEN
Of course every Union voter whom
these copperheads can drive into the
army lessens the strength of the Union
forces at home, and increases the chan
ces of the copperheads obtaining pos
session of the offices. Here is the ex
act measure of the patriotism which
prompts these efforts. Were it not
that we interfere with their attempts
to get possession of the offices, we
might stay at home and welcome, and
the army might go without reinforce
ments for all they care. But as the
Union men were not the advocates of
the volunteer system, we cannot un
derstand why it should be any more
incumbent ou them than any body else
to volunteer. Indeed, the obligatior
is on the other side altogether. The
Union mon are in favor of the draft,
and have sustained it consistently. The
copperheads demanded volunteering,
and now that their demand has been
conceded, it behooves them, not us, to
Sad the volunteers. If the obligation
to volunteer rests upon any body in
particular, it certainly must be upon
the copperheads themselves, since they
have caused the draft to be set aside.
Come forth, therefore, ye "Dem
ocratic" politicians who wore so bitter
against conscription, and who wanted
the volunteer system substituted;
come forth and let us see the color of
your patriotism. Whore are all the
thousands whom you promised to ob
tain with so much ease if the Govern
ment would only set aside the conscrip
tion and resort again to volunteering ?
Do not try now to sneak out of it and
throw the obligation upon the Union
men, who never favored volunteering.
Show that you did not pursue this
course as a mere trick to get rid of
Union voters and leave the community
in the hands of men of your own kid
ney. You can only do so by enlisting
in the volunteer service, and if you do
not, the inference will be irresistible
that you felt yourselves to be in a wo
ful minority on the popular vote, and
used this device to get rid of enough
Union voters to leave the management
of our elections in your hands.
The President's proclamation has
now been issued long enough to allow
ample time for its effects to be wit
nessed. The copperhead Governors of
New York and New Jersey have also
issued proclamations. But we have
yet to hear of any "Democratic" poli
ticians responding to it by entering
the service. The municipal Councils
of Philadelphia and New York cities,
both controlled by copperhead.majori
ties, have appropriated several millions
of dollars for bounties to induce re
cruits, but that is in the hope of per
suading Union men to enlist, so as to
leave a copperhead majority in each
city to manage the local politics. Not
a than of the copperheads has set the
example of enlisting under those offers,
or of starting a rendezvous among his
fellow-copperheads.
Ample time will be allowed for them
to show what they can do, and the
field will be left clear for their opera
tions. No Union man will interfere
with them. And when they have
manifested the hollowness of all their
pretensions by refusing to volunteer
or raise volunteers, the loyal Gover
nors and the Union men will raise the
troops in their own way, and the effort
to obtain a copperhead majority at
home by sending away the loyal vo
tors will bo as complete a fizzle as all
the previous attempts of the same kind
have been. It will be many a long
day before the people of the free States
will be caught napping as they were
last fall. They have learned the se
vere lesson that they are a home gar
rison who have onerous duties to Per
form.
Let the coppAreads contemplate
the recent vote in Pennsylvania.—
They had piled up the pyramid of
fraud so high that they fondly imagin
ed they had the game in their own
hands. But the patriotic people have
nobly arrayed themselves on the na
tional side in such numbers as to over
top the enemy, and exceed even our
groat aggregate of 1860. No amount
of drain of the Union strength to sup
ply troops for the army can exhaust
the wonderful elasticity of the party
or the vitality of the great cause.—
What we lose by volunteering we
make up in accessions from the Dem
ocratic ranks. The course of the cop
perheads is constantly driving over to
us thousands of patriotic, Union-loving
Democrats. if we were to send forth
50,000 of our Union men now to rein
force Meade and Gillmore, we should
get 75,000 to replace them from the
Democratic ranks. But before we
conclude to do so—as no doubt in the
end we shall have to—we want this
boastful frie❑d of the volunteer sys
tem, the "Democratic party" to take
the charge of the thing and show what
it can do.
THEY DIE HARD.—The last lirOnitw•
has an editorial two columns in length
on "the result of the late election and
its lesson." The result seriously dam
aged their future prospects, and the
lesson will do for all men of doubtful
loyalty to study over during the long
winter evenings.
THE Richmond Examiner, of the
27th, admits that the rebel rains built
by the Lairds, and detained by orders
of the British Government, were for
the use of the Southern Confederacy.
THERE are many stories current in
cutup, as to what General Roseerans
replied to Bragg when ho appeared
before Chattanooga, on the morning
of the Tuesday following the battle",
demanding the surrender of Chatta
nooga. lie accompanied the demand .
with the information that if not com
plied with ho should shell the town.—
Rosecrans received the flag and mes
senger with great courtesy, and re
turned for answer, "Shell and be d—d ;
this is nono of my town."
A NOVEL Oantat.—On the 14th, Gen.
Rosecrans received news of the Union
victory in Ohio, and he immediately
issued the following order :
"Ohio gone for Brough by 30,000.
Send word for three times three thro'
the camps. No information of the
reason for cheers to be given by our
pickets."
Immediat.l. ) oti the receipt of this
order, the different regiments were
drawn up, and at the word of command
three times three rousing cheers were
.given from one end of the line to the
other, at the defeat of the most viru
lent traitor in the land, North or
South. It 'is impossible to estimate
the moral effect of this victory upon
the army. There was as much rejoi
cing among the soldiers of every State
as if they had achieved a brilliant vic
tory on the battle-field.
WE are permitted to publish the
following letter from our young friend,
Sergeant Rudy :
.Pailfax Court Irougo, Tra.,
Oct. 15, 1863.
Sir :—I seat myself to let you know
that our much loved Captain Harry
Gregg and Lieut. Green were taken
prisoners. They were taken at Sul
phur Springs, Va. On Monday, 12th,
our company numbered 60 men before
being engaged , and now numbers 22
meu. It behaved splendidly ,
_ and the
old 13th Regiment also. Wo were
met by Fitz Hugh Lee's Division—
nearly 5 mon to our 1. Our compa
ny's horses not being used to firing we
were dismounted, and deployed as
skirmishers, when we were ordered to
fall back. Their cavalry charged on
us, but was repulsed by the old 13th
Penna. and 10th N. Y., and on falling
back we were • attacked by another
brigade of cavalry and infantry • that
was the last place I saw Capt. infantry;
By that time-we had almost reached
the Rappahannock; General Gregg
then opened on them with five pieces
of artillery, which checked them until
our forces had crossed the river. Our
company has lost 3 sergeants and 4
corporals.
On yesterday, Oct. 14th, we wore
engaged -near Warrenton Station,
where I received a very severe wound
through the left leg below the knee.
Our company has seen hard times; I
think it will be taken to Washington
to recruit. Yours truly,
_ _
E. S. RUDY,
Ist Sergt. Co. N, 13th Pa
—The following members of Capt.
Gregg's company were also captured
at the same time:
Sergeants—L A Zuck, J Galloway,
J Mason ; Corporals—F Leavy, S Ed
miston, J Myers.
Privates—T Arblo, J Burns, G Brin
dle, A Briggs, L Briggs, II Dezarts,
J Edwards, J 3, Biters, F Biters, H. Ful
ler, R Goodman, A Hilton, J Henry,
M Honning, J Houseman, J Holoken,
J Keller, J Leo, G Miller, J Morris, C
Mills, G Richardson, P Richardson, G
Schmital, J Skinner, J Sipes, J San
ders, A Stovers.
m.Fine Cigars and Tobacco for
sale at Lewis' Book Store
School books of all kinds, Stationery
of the best, bibles, hymn-books, etc.,
etc., etc., for sale at Lewis' book store.
GOLD PENS.-A fine assortment of
Pocket and Desk Gold Pens just re
ceivod at Lewis' Book Store
tal,. An assortment of Card Photo
graphs at Lewis' Book Store
IA Afl FOR THE UNION
The Army of the. Cumberland,
Nashville, Oct. 29.—Lookout Moun
tain was taken on the 28th by our
troops, under General Hooker, with
the Eleventh Army Corps, a portion of
the Twelfth, and Palmer's division of
the Fourth Corps. They met with no
serious opposition.
The river is now opened to Chatta
nooga, and the Army of the Cumber
land relieved from any danger of hav
ing its communication cut off.
Washington, Oct. 30.—The Star of
this evening contains information that
on the 27th inst., by a very brilliant
movement, which was planned and ex
ecuted under the direction of General
Smith, chief of engineers in the depart
ment of the Cumberland, two wagon
roads and the use of the river lines of
supplies were acquired for the forces at
Chattanooga, thus relieving the com
mand of General Thomas of its chiet
em ba MSS merit.
General Smith's operations at the
mouth of Lookout valley aro spoken
of as a groat success, and their bril
liancy cannot he exaggerated.
Maj. General Thomas has telegraph
ed to the War Department the follow
ing despatch, dated 9 o'clock yester
day morning:
"General Hooker was attacked at
12 o'clock midnight. A severe fight,
continued for two hours, with lighter
work until 4 o'clock, A. M. Hooker
reports, et 7.30 this morning, that the
conduct of his troops was splendid.—
They repelled every attack made on
them, and drove the enemy from every
position they assailed."
FROM CHARLESTON.
3Torris Island, Tuesday, Oct. 27, '63
—l2 M.--Three heavy guns have been
turned upon the city of Charleston,
and each one has thrown one shop,
containing Greek fire into the very
heart of that place.
Other guns are to open upon the
city this afternoon.
It was not intended at first to make
the commencement of such vigorous
operations, but circumstances have
changed the programme entirely.
Our batteries are also at work on
Johnston, Sumter, and Moultrie.
The enemy reply reservedly today.
lie is evidently taken with surprise so
far as the shelling of Charleston is con
cerned, although ho has had sufficient
warning.
Pour monitorsare in position off
Sullivan's Island. It is understood
they will engage the rebel works this
afternoon,
The Ironsides shows no disposition
to participate. Her ropes are strung
with sailors' washing.
Headquarters, Department of the
South, Tuesday, Oct. 27th, 1863.—A
number of the heavy guns in Wagner
and Gregg were opened on Sumter,
Moultrie and Johnson yesterday mor
ning. The firing was continued at
regular intervals throughout the day
until dark, and resumed again this
morning.
The range c the guns on Johnson
and Sumter is one-third less than it
was befbro the
Gregg. The firing on our side is ex
cellent—every shot seems to be effect
ive. The enemy did not commence an
animated reply till about noon yester
day. his practice is inferior to that
exhibited weeks ago.
At the present moment of writing
not a casualty has occurred on our
side, and no perceptible damage to our
works has been sustained.
The artillery is in charge of the 3rd
Rhode Island Regiment, they having
been ordered to the pieces on Sunday.
The land batteries alone are engaged.
The object of the fire was to get per
fect range of the rebel works, and to
prevent the construction of any inte
rior batteries and the mounting of any
guns on Sumter. It cannot be pat
down as the commencement of any
vigorous assault, and the public must
not anticipate news of stirring import
by the arrival of the succeeding trans
port. That preparations have been
making for some weeks for active
movements is patent to us all, and will
be more so when the actual moment
arrives.
AFFAIRS IN ARKANSAS.
Cairo, Oct. 30.—Advices from Little
Rock to the 10th, state that volunteer
ing for the Union army continues to
be successful. The militia organiza
tions in the Northwestern part of the
State numbers 2,000. Captain Ryan,
of General Steele's staff, lute been ap
pointed Superintendent for the organ
ization of loyal troops for the defence
of the State.
Dobbins, the notorious guerilla, was
surprised last week at Tulip, and 832,-
000 in Confederate notes captured
Deserters from Price's rebel army
are daily arriving at Little Rock and
Pine Bluffs, and taking the oath of al
legiance. At the last accounts more
than half of his army had deserted.
Guerillas, under Campbell, entered
Charlestown, Missouri, last night, rob
bing the stores and citizens. They
took Colonel Deal prisoner, who shot
two of the party. Campbell was cap
tured and has been brought here in
irons.
Good News from Gen. Banks' Depart-
ment.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 22.—The latest
news received from the army is up to
yesterday afternoon, and is of the most
cheering character.
Major General Franklin entered
°places, at noon yesterday. The
enemy made a stand about five miles
in front of the town, with a body of
troops composed of infantry, cavalry
and artillery, but they were quickly
driven from the field. This result has
followed every attempt of the enemy
to make a stand during the• present
campaign on the Loche.
Several small expeditions have re
cently been sent across Lake Ponehar
train into the Mississippi river, where
they destroyed several rebel tanner
ies and salt works, besides other val
uable rebel property. They met sev
eral parties of rebel soldiers. In the
skirmishes which ensued, the Union
troops wore victorious.
Eight released prisoners died on the
boat on their way North, having been
actually starved to death.
PENNS L VANIA, ),VS.
In the name and by the authority of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, An.
drew G. Curtin, Governor of the said
Commonwealth :
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, The President of the United
States, by his Proclamation, bearing date on
the third day of this month, has invited the
citizens of the United States to set apart
THURSDA Y, THE TWENTY SIXTH OF
NOVEMBER, NEXT,
as a day of thanksgiving and prayer. N 'NV
I, ANDREW G. CURTIN,
Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania, do hereby recommend, that the people
of Pennsylvania do sot apart and observe the
said day accordingly, and that they do espe
cially return thanks to Almighty God, for
the gathered harvests of the fruits of the
Earth,—
Fur the prosperity with which he has
blessed the industry of our people,—
For the general health and welfare which
Ho has graciously bestowed upon them,—
And fur the crowning mercy by which the
blood-thirsty and devastating enemy was
driven from our soil by the valor of our bre
thren, freemeNgf this and other States,—
And that they do especially pray for the
continuance of the blessings which have been
heaped upon us the Divine Hand,—
And fur the safety and welfare and success
of our brethren in the field, that they may be
strengthened to the overthrow and confusion
of the rebels now in arms against our belov
ed Country ;
So that Peace may be restored in all our
borders, and the Constitution and Laws of
the land be everywhere within them, re-es
tablished and sustained.
Given under my hand and the great seal of
the State at Harrisburg, this twenty-eighth
day of October, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty
three, and of the Commonwealth the eigh
ty-eighth.
By the Governor: A. G. CIAITLN.
ELI SLIFER, Secy. of the Commonwealth.
PEXNS YLVAiIriA, SS:
In the name and by the authority of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, An
drew 0. Curtin, Governor of the said
Commonwealth :
A PROCLAMATION.
WIIEREAS, The President of the United
States, by Proclamation, bearing date un the
Seventeenth day of October, inst., has called
for THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND VOL
UNTEERS, to recruit the regiments now in
the field from the respective States : And
whereas, By information received this day,
the quota of the State of Pennsylvania under
said call is declared to be TIIIRTY•EIUIIT
THOUSAN D Two Il UN DRED AND SIX
TY-EIGHT MEN, (38,268 ;) And whereas,
The President, in his said Proclamation, re
quests the Governors of the respective States
to assist in raising the force thus required :
Now, therefore, I, Andrew G. Cur'in, Gov
ernor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
do earnestly call on the good and loyal free
men of this Commonwealth, to enlis in the
service of the United States, under the Proc
latnation aforesaid, so that the required quo.
to may be made up before the Fifth day of
January next, on which day the President
announces that,a draft will commence for
any deficiency that may then exist in the
same.
The freemen of Pennsylvania enlisting
under this call will be attached to regiments
front this State. All who arc willing to en
list are requested to present themselves at
once, for that purpose, to the United States
Provost Marshals' recruiting and mustering
offices, in the respective cities, towns and
counties. They will receive the following
sums as allowance, pay, premium, and boun
ty, viz
To every recruit who is a veteran volunteer,
as defined in General Orders of the War De
partment of June 25, 1863, No. 101, for re
cruitin gveteran volunteers. one month's pay
in advance, and a bounty and premium
amounting to $402. To all other recruits
not veterans, accepted and enlfsted as re
quired in existing Orders, one months pay
in advance, and in addition a bounty and
premium amounting to $302.
Any furtlwir information desired can bo
obtained from the Provost Marshals of the
respective districts.
in making this appeal to the good and loyal
freemen of Pennsylvania, I feel entire confi
dence that it will be effectually responded to.
The approaching expiration of the term of
enlistment of the men now in the - field ren
ders it necessary to roplenislionr regiments.
Let us maintain the glory which their valor
and conduct have reflected on the Common
wealth, and let our people show, by their
promptness and alacrity on this occasion,
that they have not abated in courage or love
of country, or in the determination that the
unholy rebellion, already stunned and Stag
gerhns shall ho uttarly ornshorl and extin
guished.
Given under my hand and the great seal of
the State at Harrisburg, this twenty-eighth
day of October, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three
and of the Commonwealth the eighty-eighth
By the Governor; A. G. CUItTIN.
ELI SLIFER, See'y of the Commonwealth.
The Enrolment and the Draft.
PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL'S OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct 19, 1863.
Sul : I have the honor to report, for
your information, certain general facts
connected with the draft, as shown by
reports made up to this time.
The machinery for executing the
enrolment act is in complete working
order. The law as it stands cannot be
made to develop the entire military
strength of the nation, and the execu
tion of it has been rendered exceeding.
ly difficult by the efforts made in vari
ous ways to resist or evade it, or to
escape from its operation.
Its fruits, therefore, are not as abun
dant as they will be from a perfected
law and more thoroughly established
system of executing it All the advan
tages, however, which could reason
ably have been expected from the law
are accruing.
Its general principles distribute the
burdens of military service fairly
among those liable to bear them, but
there is perhaps more generosity than
justness in some of its humane provi
sions, With certain modifications,
which can readily be made by Con
gress, the military strength of the
country may, by the direct and indi
rect operation of this act, be surely
and' cheaply brought into the field.
Several of the Western States have
not been subjected to the present draft
on account of the excess of volunteers
heretofore furnished, and from the
same cause the quotas in other Wes
tern States are rendered quite small;
the present draft is, therefore, but a par
tial ono, and no specific total was es
tablished as the quota for it.
Of those drawn in the present draft,
including the 50 per cent. additional
over 80 por cent. have reported in ac
cordance with the orders of the boards.
Of the 20 por cont. who have not re
ported, many are not wilful deserters,
being unavoidably absent, at sea and
the like. The deserters aro being ar
rested.
Of all examined about 30 per cent.
have been exempted on account of
physical disability, about 30 per cent.
have been exempted under the provi
sions of the second section of the act,
or found not liable to military duty on
account of alienage, unsuitableness of
age non-residents, &e. Those who are
not liable to military duty, and form
no part of the national forces, and
therefore have been erroneously, en
rolled, appear in the general reports of
the boards among those exempted, be
cause their non-ability to serve could.
not be established until they came be
fore; the boards. The number of ex
emptions is thus made to appear much
larger than what it really is.
About 40 per cent. of the men ex
amined have been held to service, and
have either entered the army in per
son, furnished substitutes, or paid com
mutation.
About one-half of those held to ser
vice have paid commutation; of the
remainder about one-third have gone,
in person, and two-thirds have furnish.
ed substitutes, and all except a few in
trapsit and a small proportion of de
serters from among the earlier substi
tutes accepted, are in the ranks of
their regiments in front of the enemy.
It is fair to suppose that most of those
who wilfully fail to report, and thus
become deserters, are physically fit for
service; if they had been examined the
proportion exempted for physical dis
ability would have been reduced to
about 25 per cent. The proportion of
exemptions would be still further re
duced by purging the enrolment lists
before draft of all cases of mani
fest unfitness, and of aliens and others
not liable to military duty, as may he
done where this system of raising
troops is well established.
The pi opositions above given are
based upon the reports up to this time
from the seventy-three Congressional
districts where the draft has been
completed, or has most nearly ap
ached completion.
Since the present rebellion began
about 200,000 soldiers, after entering
service, have been discharged on sur
geon's certificate of disability. It is
probable that at least one-half of them
were unfit for service when received.
It may be safely said that forty mil
lions of money was uselessly expended
in b'-inging them into the field, to say
nothing of their subsequent expense to
the Government
In Great Britian, under the system
of voluntary enlistment, the rejections
average over 27 per cent. In France,
from 1831 eo 1842, the average num
ber of exemptions annually was 94,860;
so that, to secure the contingent of
80,000 men, 174,860 conscripts were
annually examined.
Of the recruits who presented them
selves for enlistment in our regular ar
my in 1852, 70 per cent. were rejected
for physical infirmities, exclusive of
age or stature. Between the Ist Jan
uary and Ist Silly last, more than one
half were rejected. These wore, men
who desired to be accepted. These
proportions are of interest in connection
with the filet that less than one-third
of the drafted men who desire not to
be accepted have been exempted on
account of physical unfitness.
There have been hut few cases of
incompetency, fraud, neglect, or abuse
in the examination of drafted men.—
These men have, however, in many
ways been swindled by rogues having
no connectier. with the boards of en
rolment, as, for exair plc, the fact that
certain drafted men were physically_
unfit fur service has become unknown
to these sharpers, when - it - was porlmps
not known to the men themselves,
and they have so far imposed upon
the ignorance or credulity of the draf
ted men as to get from them sums of
money to secure an exemption to
which the rogues knew they were en
titled and would surely receive, and
the drafted men, finding themselves
exempted as promised, have sometimes
thought and given out that they se
cured exemption by bribery of draf
ting officers, whereas they were legal
ly entitled to exemption, and have
themselves been swindled by shar
pers.
All has been done that seemed pro
per under existinglaws to check these
evils, and to meet properly the few
cases of criminality and incompetency
which have occurred among the offi
cers of this bureau.
All the expenditures up to this
time on ac , :ount of this bureau, inclu
ding the enrolment, draft, and pay of
officers, and persons connected with it,
are but little over $1,200,000. These
expenditures include all made on ac
count of the machinery which has pro
duced the arrest and return of twenty
thousand deserters.
The amount of money received from
the draft up to this date is about ten
times as great as all the expenses in
curred on account of • the enrolment
act; those resulting from the New
York riots are not however, included
in this statement, as they aro more
properly attributable to other causes
and other persons than to the draft or
the officers of this bureau.
I am, very respectfully, your ()Lodi
cut servant,
- -
JAMES B. FBA',
Provost Marshal General.
llon. B. M. STANTON, See'y. of War
Rebel Terms of Peace.
The terms of peace which the Rich
mond Enquirer proposes to the "Yan
kees" should open the eyes of the
peace men of the North, particularly
those who voted for Woodward at the
last election, with the hope that the
success would bring peace. Among
the other mild measures proposed and
demanded, is :
"The pretension of that country to
prevent by force the separation of the
States MUST BE ABANDONED, which is
equivalent to an avowal that our ene
mies WERE WRONG FROM TUE FIRST;
and of course, as they waged a cause
less and wicked war upon us, they
ought in STRICT JUSTICE to be required
according to usage in such cases, to
REIMBURSE TO US THE WHOLE OF
OUR EXPENSES AND LOSSES IN
THE COURSE OF THE WAR."
To do this would tax every man in
the North ONE-lIALF OF 111$ WEALTH.
This is the character of the traitors
down South. They would first pillage
and plunder the North, and then tax
lig half our means to pay their debts.
To this would the copperhead leaders
have led us in the election of Wood
ward and their peace doctrines. But,
thanks to the loyal and patriotic, Gov.
Curtin is re-elected, and his peace is
rebel submission and RD paying of any
debts but our own.
Gen. McClellan,
•
The Baltimore American was one of
those papers which, like the Expre6',
was partial to Gen. McClellan, and'
cordially supported him so long as hit,
was in the field—as we do all Goner . -
als while retained in their respective
commands—thus speaks of the esti
mation in which McClellan is now
held by the loyal men of the border
States :
General McClellan has "spoken in
public" at last, and the time and oc
casion of giving utterance to his senti
ments has -swept from his side all those'
truly loyal men who had adhered to
him through good and -had report.
Here in Maryland his friends were
numbered by thousands—they refused
to believe the accusations against Lis
loyalty—they contended that he would
in due time clear his escutcheon of all
imputations—of lack of earnestness in
the prosecution of the war and the
maintenance of the Union—but- his
letter in opposition to the election of
Governor Curtin, and in favor of the
defeated Semi-Rebel candidate, has
dashed their hopes, and made them
ready to believe anything and every
thing that has been charged against
him.
Next to Vallandigham there is no
man in the country whose loyalty had
been more strongly impeached than
Judge Woodward's, whose election as
Governor of Pennsylvania Gdn. Mc-
Clellan regarded "as called for_ by the
interests of the. nation." But, ilia
pendent of this, there,was reason Why
Gen. McClellan should of all men have
taken no part in this contest, even' if
his political prejudices were 'with
Judge Woodward. We know that
Gov. Curtin was one of the most ear
nest defenders of General M'Clellan,
and that at as late a day as the remo
val of,General looker from the. com
mand of the Army of the Potomac he
accompanied a party of leading Men
from New York and-Pennsylvania to
Washington, and urged and begged
the President to reinstate him in com
mand. General McClellan knew this
fact, and also that he had on all occa
sions disagreed with his political
friends in their opposition to him—
that he refused to believe their impu
tations against his character as a loyal
man and a soldier, and had lost influ
ence with the authorities-at Washing
ton on this account.
But independent of all this, Gen_
McClellan knew that the party which
hoped to elect Judge Woodward is as
disloyal as the secessionists - of Mary
land. They rejoice in Rebel victories
and mourn over their defeats. Their
political animosity to the Administra
tion is so great that they have lo3t, all
love of country and are ready to sac
rifice their nationality to crush their
political opponents. Gen. McClellan
has broken his long silenco to array
himself with these malcontents, and by
so doing has sunk himself beyond all
redemption in the estimation of all
who are truly loyal. We want no
such men in command of loyal armies,
and if the President was satisfied of
the sentiments now expressed by Gen.
McClellan, we, for the first tim-in the
columns of the American, thank him
for persistently refusing to yield to the
urgent appeals made toldin for his re
instatement.
MARRIED,
By Peter Swoope, at his Louse, on
29th of October, 1863, Mr. CHARLES
DORMER 10 MISS CATIIARLNE NEGLEY,
of Saxton, Bedford county, Pa.
On the same day, Mr. W3l. HICKS
to Miss SCS.IN WA hr„ of Walker town
ship, Huntingdon county, Pa.
On the same day, Mr. TORN MYERS
10 Miss CATUARINE ANN CORNELIUS, of
McVey town, Mifflin county, Pa,
DIED,
In the Campbell Hospital in Wash
ington City, D. C. on the 17th of Oc
tober 1863. ARCM - BALD MONTGOMERY
BELL, of the 148th, Ileg't., Penna.
Volunteers, in the 23rd. year of his
age. The deed., was a kind and love
ly youth, free from those contamina
ting influences which ruin so many
young men. And though of fragile
frame, and tender constitution he
could not listen to tho distant din of
warin cold apathy, when the last
hope of human liberty was threatened
by the most ungrateful, wicked and
cruel rebellion with which the pages
of human history has ever been stain
ed. But burning with patriotism, be
left the sweets of domestic life, respon
ded to his country's call, and nobly
defended its Banner in the Army of
the Potomac, under Hooker, Burnside
and Mead, and until he fell a victim
by typhoid fever. His oldest brother-,
John Bell, was shot through the heart
whilst gallantly repellin ,, the rebels
in the battle of South Mountain, on
the 14th, of September 1802--leaving
a noble hearted, tender and widowed
christian Mother to mourn the loss of
her first born, who now weeps over
the remains of her second son. Her
third boy is still in the Army, doing
battle under Burnside. Her fourth,
and only sou, at home, too young to
participate in the strife of war, though,
anxious to join our noble Army. None
but a rebel or traitor would blush on
mingling a tear with that bereaved
widow.
"In Rama was there a voice heard,
lamentation, and weeping . and great'
mourning, Rachel weeping for her
children and would not be comforted
because they aro not."
How long 0 Lord, shall the onsan
gained fields of cruel war, with gar
ments rolled in blood—flow long shall
the lamentations of widows, and the
cries of Orphans made such by this
wicked rebellion—How long shall the
graves of the slain and •tho spirits of'
those who have fallen in defence of
human liberty, cry unto thee for the
conquest of our national foes.
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