11 tnKFilt, Editor and Proprietor.
r'oob IIUTCIIIXSOtf , Publlstier.
FOR THE UNION.
.T0Rr OF THE OPERATIONS AD
VrTU0D OF BUSINESS OF THE PRO
VOST-MARSHAL'S OFFICE isTnE
17th DIST., PA., SINCE ITS
ESTABLISHMENT km 1863.
Concluded.
SUBSTITUTES.
'c detailing the operation of 6ubstitu-
n it is cot ncce-:s iry for uie to mention
.1 r&iioss spedicnti resorted to in dif-
;r nt localities by means of which some
n n-cre induced to enter the army as
rifutes for their relatives, friends,
iLlibors, or for whatever principal seem-
aost noeral n ottering compensation.
hall be my object more particularly to
e the manner of dealing with thisclas
individuals, from the time they pre-
td themselves lor examination until
, lad been delivered at general ren
ou3 as so!dicr3 of the United States.
Vlttr a short experience, the Board
;.orolluieiit were convinced thattoper-
u their duty to the Government in
rr case, it was necessary tnat persons
. . 1 - - !
Wting thcmsclvc
lull always be rega
i s-picion ; a ad ins
tuemscivcs as suubiuuieti
arded with more or
1 icui maxim which instructs us to
insider every man innocent until proven
ity," it was policy if not duty in these
Is to interpret it conversely. So nu-
oui and trlaripg were the frauds per-
Ltrated by substitutes and pcrsous having
ni in charge to seeuro tueir acceptance
) service, that it became sometimes a
latter of very grave doubt with consci
jious cfueers whether duty to the Gov
$,'Dcnt did not require them to reject
uch persona, unlc.-s they could pro-
re satisfactory evidence that their in-
I'.t? wore houorable.
I'Len the substitute had been carcful
id rigidly examined, on his cath, by
I)ard of Enrollment, end they
; satisfied in regard to his age, nation-
and purpose, he was then subjected
he fcurjreon to an examination of his
cd, not less ririd than the one thro'
eli lie had just passed. It was thought
xt, and was in accordance with m
ctions, to raiso the standard in phys-
qualifieations for a substitute a little
"e that of cither a drafted man cr
inteer, bo that while the Government
fcht bo and very frequently was de
cided by this class ot persons m many
T5, it at least should not be weakened
u,e acceptance of men into its servico
tjliy si cully competent to perform ruili
.. dutv. After a substitute had passed
examinations aud was ascertained to
,e!l qualified in every respect to do
dutv of a soldier, he was mustered
the serv:
usual oath
the ci?e o
ce bv administering to him
h employed for that purpose.
)f substitutes, 1 see no dis-
fctiou between an enlistment and a mus-
or, rather, I think there is no eolist
:mt, uuka the agreement between hiin
I his principal might be considered as
M.
ill is. however, djea not nnnear to have
I
same binding force upon him that
". . .1 - . m
ailt's(me?it by a recruiting officer docs
i a volunteer. The latter binds the
a:t in military law to perform his part
contract, while it docs not affect the
eminent in this way, until the man
teen mustered. The former would
i.
S !
ic
I:
fno c:Tect, only as a civil contract be-
:or,
)k.
the principal and substitute, the
iry law not taking cognizance ot the
1 Until nffpr f!ii rn-in had Kocn rma-
to
.13
lie-
1
fhis is the distinction which I have
rved id receiving and mustering into
'ce those who enter the srmy as sub-
cs ior individuals, and those who go
oluntccis
'"ora thi3 time until they are forward-
the
p perioral rendezvous, tneir treatment
Jsctly the same as I have before de--d
in reference to drafted men, with
s'lDule exception that like their exam-
er
ed. er-
VP-
lion, the guard maintained over them
fiiore rigid than that exercised over any
"d'assol soldiers. The suspicion that
iriably attacnea to them upon their
entrance into the office for examina
does not icave them until they have
s delivered safely at the proper ren-
pe descriptive rolls used for substi-
fiM2 the same as these for drafted
pi Modified of course in column of re-
tun ium uaiuiv v iuviuii, aim
disposed of in the same manner.
focebs, as far as the operations of
wuce are concerned, for furnishing
accessary information by means of
: the proper credits may 'be ascer-
and reported, is virtually the same
P-case either of substitutes, drafted
For volunteers.
plojment of enforced milirary ser
atid t?ben the wisdom of the "com
cn clause" of the Act of March 3.
J Was doubted by many eminent men,
u, a very general tear perceptible
2 mds of .he people that perhaps
stem or policy of substitution would
lone, ocd unjustly oppress that large
V..l . 0 wllu wtre uuaDio to pur
P 6ubstitutfR.
4
n i
me
course of time, I think all ap.
fpLTJME 7.
prehensions of. this nature have disap
peared, and that part of the law which at
present authorizes the employment of sub
stitutes, with the limitations therein im
posed, is acknowledged to be a wise and
politic provision. Prominent in importance'
among the enactments in reference to the
employment of substitutes, is the fourth
section of the Amendatory Act approved
February 24, 1SG4. In accordance with
its provisions, scores of men have been
added to our armic9 in times of their
greateot depletion, who have gone as sub
stitutes for enrolled men previous to draft,
and whose principals havo never been
drafted.
VOLUNTEERS.
The means employed to procure volun
teers were principally of a pecuniary na
ture, accompanied most generally by the
apprehensions of . conscription. In the
early part of 18G4, the Government of
fered a premium in money to such por
sons as should present either veteran or
new recruits who upon examination should
be accepted and mustered into the service.
This incentive to volunteering, or rather
the procurement of volunteers, had a very
good effect, and was the means of fur
nishing to our armies many of the very
best quality of soldiers.
The great inducement, however, to men
entering the service as volunteers was that
of" bounty. In addition to the monthly
pay of the soldier, and the very liberal
bounty offered him by the Government,
nearly every sub-district increased this
amount by lcal taxation or subscription,
until it reached a 6um not a little tempt
ing to a great majority of the people, and
much above that which many of them
might hope to possess through the ordin
ary avenues ol labor. The prospects of
obtaining a little fortuuein this way, even
at the risk of life in the service, was more
pleasing for the poor man to contemplate
than the idea of being drafted and forced
to incur these perils without any pecunia
ry compensation, and with perhaps the
additional regret of being hurried from a
family who were de.-titute of the necessa
ries of life or ot the means of procuring
them.
When the war had been raging for two
or three years, that impulsive patriotism
which was so prevalent at its commence
ment, and which told so plainly how little
of its desolations and sufferings wo then
comprehended, had settled down ia the
mind of the nation to stern resolve and
cold calculation. Motive, that potent
agent in the affairs of men, became more
apparent in every movement of the people,
and while their purpose to suppress the
rebellion was no less fixed and unalterable
now than at first, they yet demanded that
reason and judgment should no longer be
sacrificed to impulse.
They. deplored the existence of war and
the suffering it entailed, but while sensi
tive to these, they felt it not inconsistent
with duty and the purest patriotism to
accept the pecuniary compensation prof
fered them by the national r.nd municipal
authorities, as sn equivalent for the perils
they were likely to incur in entering the
army. Thus the bounties became in
course of time, and as the war progressed,
a much more important consideration in
the inindsof volunteers : and it was through
this mean", perhaps, more than auy other,
that men were induced to enter the service
in this capacity.
The manner of examining volunteer
by the Surgeon was the same precisely r.s
that practised in the examination- of draf
ted men and substitutes, with perhaps the
single exception that it was mote rigid
than the former and less to than the
latter.
The enlistment of volunteers was most
generally done by person? whom the Gov
ernor of tha State had commissioned
recruiting officers. Under nearly if not
all the calls for men made by the Presi
dent ot the United States, the different
State Executives were permitted to raise
a part or the whole of the force levied up
on them, by forming new organizations. In
this case, volunteering was much more
rapid and active than when the recruits
were compelled to enter veteran compa
nies and regiments in which, most likely,
the officers would be unknown to them,
and where they imagined often that they
would not be treated with impartiality.
When men had been enlisted by these
recruiting otricers, they were brought to
these head-quarters, subjected to a careful
physical examination, and if found quali
fied to endure the life and perform the
duties of the soldier, they were mustered
into the service, either singly or in squads,
by administering to them with uplifted
baud the accustomed oath.
The recruit having entered the service
of the United States and received the
clothing to which he was entitled, the
manner of providing for him was exactly
tho same whether he be a volunteer,
drafted man or substitute ; and as this
has already been noticed in the case of
the second of these classes, I shall not
revert to it again in this connection.
The manner of forwarding and credit
ing this class of recruits differs from thoso
already spoken of only in the unimportant
item of 6ome entries on their -descriptive
rolls in the column of "remarks," that
they may furnish more plainly all Deces
eary information in ascertaining to what
sub-district the men should properly be
credited- .
I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT THAN PRESIDENT. Hexry Clay.
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE
The volunteer soldier, which every mil
itary nation acknowledges the best in the
world, has preponderated largely over
every other class in the composition cf
American armies. Our Government being
essentially democratic in its constitution,
and designed to be so in its administration,
the people, to sustain, defend, and perpet
uate that which is their own work, come
naturally from the peaceful shades of a
citizen to the sometimes warlike and per
ilous life of the citizen soldier. The ideal
volunteer soldier i3 not driven by any
fear of conscription iuto the service of
his country; he does not follow in the
long and perilous march of her armies
through any sordid or selfish motive, for
plunder and gain; but his own voluntary
choice, induced by the purest and most
exalted patriotism, leads him in her
defence to the field of carnage, if need be
to die for her cause. Thousands of these
noble voJunteer private soldiers have
fallen in the late war for the Union, while
other thousands lived through thp dark
nights of despair and storms of death-hail,
to be examples of patriotism for us all to
the latest posterity.
DESERTERS.
The most numerous class of deserters
in this District has been that of men who
uever reported ia obedience to notice ot
draft. The number of those who "left
their commands in the field or camp is
comparatively small, while those who
really never entered the service have been
swelled by successive drafts to the pro
portions almost of a little army. Every
locality wa? for a time infested by theso
skulkers from duty, until tho Government,
with a more fixed purpose aud determina
tion, directed its energies to their arrest
and punishment.
In some of the more disloyal portions
of the District, where they were encour
aged by their numerical strength and by
the private counsel ot influential men, tbey
leagued themselves together for purposes
offensive and defensive in ease any attempt
should bo made to bring them to justice.
Their rcsh act and imprudent demon
strations of resistance only resulted in
their own injury, for it became a necessi
ty on one or two occasion! to awe them
into subjection by maiming or mortally
wounding some of their number. To
avoid ss far a? possible, however, any
unnecessary loss of life, strategy and ta
king by surprise were reported to whea
the desertcr3 secsced determined in their
resiatance, and generally this mnde of
procedure was attended vith greater suc
cess than the employment of force could
have becn-
Deserier3 were arrested in this District
principally hy detachments of tho Veteran
Kescrve Corps under the command of
deputy provost marshals, and special
agents, who were men well acquainted
with the people and natural configuration
of their respective counties. It would
sometimes become necessary to employ 33
guides the citizens of the immediate
neighborhood in which the deserter resi
ded or was harbored, and occasionally
one or two persons of the same township
would arrest their own neighbor and bring
him in, to secure their exemption, or the
release of one whom they deemed more
worthy than he, and who had been de
tained in custody be?aas of his failure
to report.
It would bo impossible for me to detail
the exact manner of making arrests, fur
ther than I have already done in giving
the agents by means ot whom this was
accomplished ; for in every cao there
nrose circumstances which necessarily
modified the method" of procedure and
left it with the judgment of the guard as
to what manner of strategy he should em
ploy to most certainly sccuro succcs?.
1 have been constantly in receipt of
descriptive lists of deserters from the
army, transmitted me from the Uureauof
the Provost Marshal General at Washing
ton, which lists were at once distributed
by mail to the deputy provost marshals
and detachments of the Veteran lleserve
Corps, stationed at the different strategic
points in the District. Many deserters
and stragglers have thus been ferreted out
and brought to justice almost before they
were aware of any effort: being made for
their apprehension, and some even while,
they yet imagined the fact of their deser
tion a profound secret.
The manner of disposing of deserters
after they had been arrested and brought
to these headquarters was very simple.
Their description, date of desertion and
date of arrest were entered into a llecord
Book kept for that purpose, after they
had been carefully examined by the
Board of Enrollment and ascertained
without doubt to be deserters. They were
then placed in the barracks under rigid
guard or locked into the. county jail, as
the enormity or suspicious nature of their
case might seem to demand. Here they
were kept in strict custody, being subsis
ted in the same way as volunceers and
drafted men, until such time as they could
be turned over to the Provcst Marshal of
the Post at Ilarrisburg, Penna., either for
punishment or to be forwarded to their
respective organizations, or for both.
In forwarding deserters, descriptive rolls
or lists were made out in duplicate, and
the provisions of paragraph 40 in Revised
Regulations for the Provost Marshal Gen
eral's Bureau, strictly adhered to.
) When the Government nrst Dan tae
arrest of deserters, the reward offered for
their apprehension and delivery to Pro
vost Marshals was so small as to be very
little inducement to any person to en-'ae
in so unpleasant a busine. When it? the
course of time, however, the country became
infested and almost flooded with strag
glers and deserters, and the Government
saw more plainly the necessity of securing
and remanding them back to their com"
mands in the field, orders more stringent
and rewards more liberal were promulga
ted to accomplish their arrest.
The sum of (830) thirty dollars auth
orized in paragraph 35 of the Revised
Regulations for the Provost' Marshal
General's Bureau, is sufficient to defray
all ordinary expenses incurred in the
arrest of deserters, besides liberally com
pensating for time employed and any
hazardous risks which sometimes must be
encountered. I believe this allowance to
have been a strong incentive for the arrest
of scores of deserters, aud it is a wise
provision which directs that it shall be
deducted from the pay of the soldier who
deserts, thus compelling him to pay the
reward for his own arrest.
As a general thing, deserters from the
draft, or con-reporting drafted men, are
much more unprincipled and defiant in
their denunciations of the Government,
and more difSeult to apprehend, than those
from the army. The latter class of per
pons possess more apparent honesty of
purpose and Teal manhood than the for
mer. They have been in the service of
their country nod witnessed the
pomp
and power of il.'armie on occasions cai
culated to impress thera with an abiding
sense ot its terrible earnost, and inspire a
belief in the justice of its cause.
Many of them bear honorable scars that
tell of their gallantry and noble daring in
the presence of the loe; and all this ead
experience seems ta have awakened and
deepened in them a feeling of awe and
respect for tho Government, which has no
lodgment in the hearts of the fcrmer class.
But men, who have not the disposition to
volunteer their services in the hour of
their country's greatest peril, and who,
having been .chosen by tho honest in
strumentality of a draft, prefer by dishon
orable means to evade the just claims of a
magnanimous Government, rather than do
one single act of loyalty ; whose suspicious
deeds and guilty consciences shun the
pure light of day and drive their adherents
into swamps and forests to form a broth
erhood with beasts and reptiles ; men like
these should scarcely longer be called
men, for they have merited uo appellation
do less odious than that of deserter.
ACCOUNTS.
The manner I have uniformly pursued
in keeping and settling accounts is very
simple and ea?y, and will require only a
brief notice. Before forwarding them for
payment at the close of each month, I
make an entry of them in a ledger, prop
erly ruled, under the general heading of
"Abstract of Indebtedness." This entry
is of such a nature as to furnish at a
single glance all necessary information in
regard to them, until they havo been paid
by the proper Disbursing Officer, when it
is completed in such way as to show the
number oi the voucher, the name of the
claimant, the nature of the account, its
amount, the date on which it was forwar
ded for payment, the bureau to which it
is sent, the number of the check by which
it is paid, the date of payment by Disbur
sing Officer, the date of payment to claim
ant by District Provost Marshal, the
amount received on cachaccount and the
amount 'deducted as internal revenue tax.
It will be observed that until the ac
count has been paid, tho entry in the
ledger is not complete, but a3 soon as it
ha3 been setttled by the proper Disburs
ing Officer, the necessary additional in
formation is placed therein, and accounts
between the Government and claimant, to
employ a familiar expression, are "squar
ed." At the time I received the appoint
ment of Provost Marshal and entered up
on the duties of the office, I found the
finances not a little embarrassed. Ac
counts of various natures had been allowed
to accumulate, and the time at which they
ought to have been paid having gone by,
their settlement became more difficult than
it would otherwise have been. Especial
ly was this true in regard to the accounts
of enrolling officers. In many cases their
appointments had nevcrbeen approved, or
even so much as forwarded to the proper
Bureau for approval. In others, their
oaths of allegiance and office wero not oa
file, and thus, prevented and barred by a
score of little irregularities cr . omissions,
their account had not been audited and
settled for several months.
A little close attention to established
rules and the accustomed routine of busi
ness, however, in this branch as well as
in all others of the department, soon re
moved every obstacle in the way of a reg
ular settlement of claims of this and every
other nature.
On several occasions I found it extreme
ly difficult to determine by any light in
my possession to what bureau or depart
ment some accounts properly and legit
imately belonged. In eases of this nature,
when I hesitated ic deciding I frequently
consulted the A. A. Provost Marshal
General of the State before torwarding the
accounts for payment.
In preparing claims for liquidation, I
hava always adhered as strictly ks possible
7, 1866.
to the instructions given in the Revised
Regulations for tho Provost Marshal
General's Bureau, and when a case arose
in which they did not apply, or in which
they were net sufficiently definite, I was
guided in its settlement by my own judg
ment aided by all relevant knowledge I
could acquire.
In dismissing this important subjeet in
my report, it affords me great pleasure
and satisfaction to refer you to the healthy
financial condition of this office, and to
assure you ot the comparative insigniF.
cauco of the present outstanding debts.
GENERAL RESULTS.
In submitting the result of the opera
tions cf thij o5ec with reference to draft
ing, volunteering, and arresting deserters,
I have deemed it best to make them of
the most general character ; and the in
quirer for details in relation to the efforts
or any particular 6ub-districts is respect
fully referred to the proper reports from
these headquarters on file in tho bureau
of the Provost Marshal General.
It will be seen by the following exhibit,
that I have net kept feparate the varicu3
drafts or even the different calls, but that
all the District quotas which have been
announced since the commencement of
conscription, beginning with the craft of
August, 1863, have been combined, and
tho separate results of each draft blended
into one common Thole. The table or
statement given here pertains only to
those things which are conceived to be
the chi?f objects for tha accomplishment
of which Provost Marshal's offices were
established that is, to obtain recruits for
the army, either by draft or as volunteers ;
and.though there have been other results
of interest springing legitimately from
the operations of this office, they are in
this case discarded as of secondary im
portance.
EXrilCIT OF RESULTS.
Pennsylvania, t Congressional Diatrict.
Number required under all calls 7429
Number drafted
9719
2393
923
356
Number failed to report
Ileld to per. service
o .E Subs, for drafted men
g 2 Paid commutation 4i
"o Total number obtained "
-Per. physical disability 11
B All other causes "
180!'
3C79
1916
3
g Total no. exempted
,42
V0I3. accepted ft mustered
Sub3. for enrolled men
- ; Deserters from the array
m Deserters from the draft
Miscellaneous arrests
91
7C 5s c Total number arrests made 4G8
De3erter3 who reported under President's
Proc. of March 11.1865 41
Although this exhibit may not be in
every item scrupulously correct, it is be
lieved to be as close an approximation to
the truth in it3 general results as is possible
to have it. In attempting to arrive at the
present deficiency of the District from the
data given here, it would be necessary
not only to consider the whole number
obtained by draft, the number of volun
teers, and the number of substitutes for
enrolled men, but also the veterans or
those soldiers who re-enlisted in the field,
the credits frr seamen, and other miscel
laneous credits from various sources; so
that if a calculation for that purpose based
upon the information furnished in the
foregoinir exhibit, be undertaken and
completed, its result would most likely
fall tar short of the real truth.
With reference to the relation of the
number required and the number drafted,
it must be noted that on different calls
there were different percentages to be
added in drawing, so that the totals in
these columns cannot be expected to sus
tain to each other the exact proportions
which they might do, had the percentage
beeu uniform on all draffs. Under the
last calls for men, too, the enrollment of
different sub-districts was exhausted be
fore obtaining even the real number re
quired, so that in cases of this nature it
was of course impossible to add any per
centage. Many considerations such as I have ad
verted to here would materially modify the
foregoing exhibit were it designed to shew
results in detail, but this not being the
intention, as will readily ba perceived by
its general nature, it is respectfully sub
mitted in its present form.
CONCLUSION.
Having noticed in the course of this
report under the divisions to which they
properly belong, some of the principal
difficulties encountered in the faithful ex
ecution of the laws which govern the bu
reau of the Provost Marshal General, I have
no occasion again to recur to them here,
but in closing shall offer in brief one or
two suggestions, the adoption of which, in
my humble opinion, would make the pres
ent statutes on this subject more com
plete and efficient.
The conscription law as it now stands,
needs but few modifications to-render it
perfect it creates no privileged class
allows of no commutation and requires
but a short term of service. It bears with
it the best possible argument for its own
'justification, for it makes conscription the
last resort, and provides liberal means for
avoiding it. The principle adopted in the
14th section of the Amendatory Act, ap
proved March 3, 1865, though too late to
be of benefit, should never be abandoned
Had it been in operatiDn two years ago, it
would have saved endless embarrassment
i.n the administration of the law, filled ail
quotas without a draftf and reudored it
ISS.OO IS ADVAXCE.
NUMBER 34.
unnecessary to incur an enormous load of
municipal debt for bounties, which will in
juriously affect the people and the Govern
ment for many years. The lack of this
provision made the law so burdensoma
upon poor rural districts that agricultural
industry had necessarily to be suspended
wherever a draft under the last call was
made, and the close ot the war alone has
saved the country from suffering a want
of the necessaries of life.
The records of the various Provost
Marshal's offices will show, as a result of"
competition in bounties, that rich and
populous districts have filled their quotas
and their resident citizens are all. at home,
while in rural districts the able-bodied
men are all gone and the quotas are yet
unfilled. The country has paid a heavy
price for tha timidity of its legislators,
which was perhaps as much the lault aa
their inexperience.
On behalf of the Government, I would
suggest that volunteers for old organiza
uatiocs should receive a liberal Govern
ment bounty, and ia all other cases no
bounty of this nature be paid. The effect
of this rule would be to equalize bounties,
and to send a constant stream of volun
teer recruits into old regiments. They
would come principally from poor rural
districts, which furnish the best men to
the service.
All stringency should plainly appear in
the law, and all possible iiberality should
be manifested in its ccnstruction. Unfor
tunately thL has net universally been tho
case, and the inclination has been too
general to decide all doubtful points in
favor of the Government, sometimes em
barrassing a liberal provision by a strin
gent or cumbrous regulation. I might
cite, as an instance of this, the rule requi
ring greater stringency in the examina
tion ot volunteers than conscripts. The
reasoning is, "a volunteeer is examiued
with reference to his acceptance into tho
service by the Government a conscript is
regarded as already in the service and is
examined with reference to his discharge."
It is certainly very difficult to see why a
volunteer, regularly enlisted by competent
authority and reporting for examination,
is not as much in the service as a drafted
man. I need not sav that the above rnlp.
under isVi Lh ' e sa?c. medical officer has
4r-.v , V man 33 A bountied volunteer
jmi ii .aras eti.ii im as a penni
N.ess and unwilling conscript, has always
Deen regarded as exceedingly unjust, and
politically injurious to the Government;
while, in a military point of view, it could
not but be detrimental to the service.
The knowledge I have acquired, during
the !a9t two years of the rebellion, in re
gard to the general character of aliens ia
this country, leads me to cherish tho hops
that future legislation will impose upon
them some of the military burdens which
attach to natural born citizens in time of
war. Were it possible so to modify the
existing laws that foreigners, of whatever
nationality, whether aliens or naturalized
citizens, could be enrolled by the Govern
ment as a part of the military forces to
suppress civil war or rebellion, originating
in tho country where they at the tima
reside, it could not but be a wise and
equitable provision.
I cannot concieVe wherein it would
necessitate a violation of allegiance to tha
nation whence they came, so long as they
are not required to take up arms against
the Government to which they owe fealty
or to engage in a war with any foreign
power, but only to assist iu the suppression
of rebellion. It would seem to me that
where aliens are tho beneficiaries, in bo
many instances, of the protection and
magnanimity of a Government, as they
are of ours, on the score of gratitude,
alone, if no other, they should assist ia
maintaining it agiinst the ' treasonous
assaults of internal foes, when 6uch assis
tance cannot possibly conflict with their
duty or allegiance to the land of thsir
birth.
I am, General, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
A. M. LLOYD.
Capt. and Provost Marshal 17th Diat. Pa.
What a Democratic Congressman
Couldn't See. A Democratic Congress
man called upon Postmaster General
Deunison and solicited the appointment
of a constituent of similar faith to a PosV
mastership in his District. "What is
he?" blandly aked Gov Dennison.
"Why, he is a Union man, and supports
President Johnson s policy, replied th
M. C. 'But what teas he, and for whom,
did he vote in the last Presidential elec
tion ?" further interrogated tho postal
chief. "He voted for M'Clellan," was ths
frank and ready reply. "We are not ap
pointing any men postmasters who voted
for M'Clellan," quoth Gov. Dennison, to
tho evident disgust of the expectant Con
gressman, who retired in a bewildered
state of mind, .growing out of his effort to
see the preciso benefit to his party of its
vigorous support ot the President's policy.
Cu A patriotic little chap began his
prayers the other night with "Now I lay
me down to sleep, shouting the battb ory
of freedom."
CSrlt is believed that tha telegraph
can be constructed through Siberia with
little trouble, because the Poles aroalmdj
on the ground.
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