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LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE DRAFT.
Suspension of the Draft and Recruiting-Order from Provost-Marshal Dodge.
The order of Secretary Stanton to Major.-Gen. Dix, suspending the draft to this city, was cordially welcomed by everybody except the bounty-brokers, who suddenly found their occupation gone, a large number of men left on their hands, and themselves out of pocket. About noon yesterday, the following order was issued from Col. Dodge's office, the Colonel himself being out of town:
Office of the A.A. Provost-Marshal General, and Super't Vol. Recruiting Service, Southern Division of New-York, New-York, April 14, 1865.
Circular No. 47.—In compliance with instructions received from the Bureau of the Provost-Marshal-General of the United States, the business of recruiting, and drafting will be discontinued in this division until further orders.
By order of Brevet Lieut.-Col R. I. DODGE, Wm. Scheffler. Capt. and A.A.A.G.
The Southern Division of New-York comprises the first ten Congressional Districts, and the order was sent to the drafting headquarters of each of them in the course of the day. The suspension of the draft, it is understood, affects all men who have been drafted and who have not actually been mustered into the service. Drafted men who have been notified to appear will probably not be called upon to report, and it is expected that an order will be issued to-day by Gen. Fry, making this fact public.
Of course, no recruits were received yesterday, though hundreds offered themselves, the brokers being particularly anxious to get rid of their men on any terms. Many of these parties have been holding back for higher bounties, and the manner in which their business has been disposed of by Secretary Stanton does not meet with their approval. One of them stated that he had a dozen men whom he had been supporting for weeks, and that the money expended on them was now a dead loss to him. At the office of the Volunteer Committee in the Park, the news was welcomed by a salute of one hundred guns, Mr. Blunt himself assisting in firing them. Mr. Blunt will now set his able clerical force to work in drawing up vouchers to present to the State authorities for the bounty money due the County. This will amount to something over $2,000,000. The whole amount expended by the Volunteer Committee is about $8,000.00; and $5,500,000 have also been expended in relieving the families of volunteers.
When the draft was suspended, the quotas of the various wards stood as follows:
| 3d Ward, | 161 | —including credits up to this time. |
| 5th Ward, | 483 | —including credits up to this time. |
| 6th Ward, | 374 | —including credits up to this time. |
| 7th Ward, | 692 | —including credits up to this time. |
| 13th Ward, | 464 | —including credits for March and since. |
| 14th Ward, | 808 | —including credits for March and since, |
| 17th Ward, | 1,000 | —inclusive of credits up to yesterday, |
| | 4,600 | names. |
BROOKLYN.
The Bounty Committee of the Board of Supervisors, of Kings County, held a meeting at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, and adopted the following resolutions:
Resolved, That this county pay no more bounties for recruits or volunteers.
Resolved, That in case drafted men are held to service, the Provost-Marshals be requested to give time to ascertain whether such drafted men cannot be discharged—and in case such drafted men cannot be discharged, or given time, then this county will pay such drafted men for one year's substitutes or their bounty.
Since the commencement of the war it is estimated that the total number of men furnished by Kings County is thirty-five thousand, of whom between seventeen thousand and eighteen thousand received bounties in sums varying from $40 to $600.
The total amount of money expended for war purposes in Kings County since the beginning of the war is as follows:
| Expended by the county for bounties, relief to families of volunteers, &c. | 4,061,760 63 |
| Expended by the city for relief to drafted men &c. | 1,060,900 00 |
| Making the total expense of the war to the County of Kings | $6,022,060 63 |
The Observance of Easter.
The Holy Week closes to-day, and to-morrow the Resurrection morn will be celebrated in all our churches by sermons appropriate to the occasion, by hymns and by the decoration of the altars with flowers.
At St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, corner of Great Jones-street and Lafayette-place, the morning service will commence at 10$^1$⁄$_2$ o'clock. The sermon will be preached by the Rector, Rev. Dr. Samuel Cooke. The music, under Dr. Clare W. Beames, will be as follows:
1. Grand Anthem, with solos, "Christ, Our Passover," composed by Dr. Beames.
2. Gloria Patri, chants and anthem. Dr. Beames.
3. Te Deum. anthem. Gunter.
4. Benedictus, anthem, arranged. Beames.
5. Solo, "I know that my Redeemer liveth" Handel. Miss Maria Brainerd.
6. Hymn 69, as an anthem, with solo soprano, arranged from Mozart.
7. After the sermon, solo, soprano and chorus, arranged by the organist from the "inflammatus", Rossini. Miss Brainerd.
8. Voluntary, organ.
9. Communion service, anthem by Dr. Beames and hymn.
The afternoon service will commence at 3½ o'clock. The selection of music will be brillant and appropriate.
Soprano—Miss Maria Brainerd, the eminent artiste, who will sing a number of solos during the services.
Contralto—Miss Virginia Tucker.
Tenore—Mr. Alex. Rehberg.
Basso— Mr. George W. Van Siclen.
Organist and Director—Dr. Clare W. Beames.
At the South Dutch Church on Fifth-avenue, corner Twenty first-street, Rev. Dr. Rogers, the festival of Easter will be observed with unusual attention. The music, which is generally of a high order, being supported by one of the finest organs in the city, will be rendered additionally interesting in the evening by the assistance of St. Bartholomew's choir, Including Miss Maria Brainerd, who will, on this occasion. sing "I Know that my Redeemer Liveth," from Handel's Messiah, and other appropriate selections.
Services to commence at 7:30 o'clock.
At Trinity and our other large churches arrangements have been completed to render the music specially attractive.
At Zion Church, (Bishop Southgale's.) the follow artists have been engaged for the occasion:
Tenor—Sig. Mongiardini.
Contralto—Mrs. Jennie Kempton.
Soprano—Mrs. Mixsell.
Baritone—Sig. Centemerl.
Leader and Organist—Mr. Antonto L. Mors, late of St. Stephen's R.C. Church In Twenty-eighth-street.
The following are the pieces to be sung in the morning:
Anthem—Christ our Passover.
Te Deum—By A. L. Mors, with solo by Sig. Centemerl.
Gloria Patri—A. L. Mors, and sung by a double quartette.
Jubilate Deo—A. L. Mors, with duet by Mrs. Kempton and Mongiardini. The psalter of the day will be chanted by a double quartette, composed of boys. Services to commence at 11 o'clock A. M
The Revolutionary Heroes to Participate in the Celebration of Our Victories.
Mr. Simeon Draper, Chairman of the Citizens' Celebration Committee, has invited the few remaining heroes of the Revolutionary war, to visit this city and participate in the celebration of our victories and the advent of peace. Mr. Fairchild has been deputed to conduct these venerable soldiers to New-York. Their names are: Lemuel Cook, enlisted at Hatfield. Mass, and resides in Clarendon, Orleans County, N.Y.; Samuel Downing, enlisted in Carroll County, N.H., lives in Edinburgh, Saratoga County, N.Y. William Hutchings, enlisted at Newcastle, Me.. (then Massachusetts,) and resides in Penobscot, Hancock County, Me.; Alexander Mahoney, enlisted at Lake George, N.Y., as a drummer-boy, residence, Yater, Orleans County, N.Y.; James Barham, substitute for a drafted man in Southampton County, Va., lives in the State of Missouri.
We have received the following note, announcing the arrival of one of the gentlemen above-named:
Astor House, Friday, April 14, 1865.
Samuel Downing, one of the survivors of the Revolution, aged 104 years. has arrived here this afternoon. He is here in response to the invitation of the committee who have in charge the forthcoming celebration, and enters into the matter with as much ardor as a youth, and talks about the rebels with the same intense hatred as he does of the tories of his day. He has four grandsons in the Union army, and says if they had not gone, he should have gone himself.
The Union League Club.
At a full meeting of the club on Thursday evening, the following resolutions, reported by Mr. Jay from the Executive Committee, were unanimously adopted. The last resolution, referring to the reciprocal treatment to be henceforth accorded to foreign vessels, was received with warm applause:
Resolved 1, That in view of the recent memorable exploits of the Army of the Potomac, compelling the evacuation of Petersburgh and Richmond, and the surrender by the rebel Lee of the insurgent forces of Northern Virginia, this club, in common with all Christian men and loyal citizens, are impressed with a feeling of deep thankfulness to Almighty God for having graciously preserved us from the plottings of traitors at home and their abettors abroad, and for having vindicated, by His all-powerrul arm, the permanence of our constitution, the unity of our country, the supremacy of our government, and the honor of our flag.
2. That we welcome these victories, not simply as terminating a long, bloody and coally strife, and establishing the American republic in her proper pre-eminence among the great powers of the world, but we hail them a restoring the southern section of our land to freedom, civilization and peace, and that we entertain none but feelings of compassion and good will towards those masses of our southern countrymen who have been deluded and coerced into rebellion by wicked men at at North and at the South, who, false to their oaths and their honor, have sought in vain to destroy their country.
3 That we cordially recognize the fact that the steadfast loyalty of the colored population of the South has materially assisted to rescue our land from the treachery of rebels in arms, and that the debt of gratitude due to them by loyal Americans can in no way be better repaid than in earnest and united efforts for their elevation and education in all that befits their new position as citizens of the republic they have helped to save.
4. That remembering the glorious page in our history which has been illumined by the heroic deeds of our army and navy during the last four years, and of which we were sadly reminded yesterday by the funeral obsequies of our own brave and lamented Winthrop, no time should be lost in organising suitable homes and modes of employment for our wounded and disabled heroes soon to return to us from the field of war.
5. That we tender to the President of the United States our heartiest congratulations on this bright dawning of his second administration after the clouds and gloom that encompassed the first, and we cordially thank him for his two recent proclamations—the one closing certain of our seaports in the exercise of the sovereign power of the American people; and the other notifying foreign nations that henceforth their ships in our ports will be excluded from all privileges which, under whatever pretext, and denied in their harbors to the vessels of the United States.
The Homeopathic physicians and Their Friends—Birthday of Hahnemann.
The annual meeting of the New-York County Homeopathic Medical Society was held at Delmonico's rooms on Fifth-avenue, on Monday night, thus at the same time doing honor to the anniversary of the birth of the illustrious PPsc|Hahnemann}}.
There was a goodly company of ladies and gentlemen around the banquet board, and the dinner was as little suggestive of homeopathic quantities as of allopathic gustation.
Besides the guests, among whom were several gentlemen of distinction, and the members hereinafter mentioned, there were Drs. Füllgraff, Baner, Wallbridge, Fowler, Andrews, Bowers, Dunne, McMurray, Clark, Wilder, Blumenthal, Remsen, Léon Mitchell, Bacon, Hitchcock, Kellogg, J. H. Ward, J. A. Ward, King, Evans, Bradford, Pratt, Tranchard, Gilbert, Barlow, Ball, Hallock, Baldwin, Millard, Paine and Macgonagil.
The inaugural oration of the President, Egbert Guernsey, M. D., was a noble production, entirely worthy of his abilities as a scholar, philanthropist and an orator.
An address was then delivered by John F. Gray, M. D., on the life and times of the beloved Dr. A. D. Wilson; but as the reporter, who was weary, not to say "stale, flat and unprofitable," had an exposition of sleep come upon him at this time, he can say nothing about it.
The regular toasts were next in order, each embellished by appropriate music.
1. The President of the United States.
This was drunk standing.
2. Our Country and her Brave Defenders, the Army and Navy—The blood they have shed in her defence has cemented her walls into adamantine strength, and woe to the nation or section that dare assail her.
Capt. Geo. F. Noyes, author of "The Bivouack and the Battle-field," was called upon, who responded to this sentiment in his thrilling and elegant style.
3. The True Physician.
This was a generous toast, speaking for humanity and for all who alleviate its sufferings through the medical profession, of whatever school or practice.
Rev. Mr. Hastings, in response, shook off "the dust of systems and of creeds," "with a vengeance."
4. The Memory of Hahnerman.
Drunk standing and in silence.
5. Our City.
In reply to which, Rev. Dr. Cummings held the mirror up to nature, and art, too, reflecting the shortcomings and long-comings of our city with his characteristic, indescribable, and unreportable vigor of wit, dryer than a graven image, yet bringing moisure to all eyes. But it was not the lachrymation of grief.
6. The Progress of Medical Science and Literature.
Responded to by D. D. Smith, M. D.
7. Our Institutions of Charity.
By H. E. Millard. M. D.
8. Women, the physielan's best friend and counsel; who often, by her kind, constant care, and natural influence for good, unconsciously cures the patient in spite of the doctor, and gives him all the honor.
This truthful toast received a deserved and felicitous response from Dr. J. A. Dowling.
During period of social intercourse it was concluded that if "Like cureth like" is not an improvement over Lindley Murray, It is over Hippocrates, which was considered vastly more to the point.
An hour after midnight the company dispersed, the programme having closed with the recitation of a patriotic poem by the reporter, followed by the chorus of "Glory Hallelujah."