The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-10 00:00:00

the gravest or the slightest kind appear so pre-
cious in the estimation of the unhappy persons
afireted with it as it does now. The total returns
of th?. city, when completed, will show some curious
figure , and it already begins _to be computed by
those who devote attention to the matter that
scarcely one-tenth of the draughted men will ever
don the Federal uniform. In the neighbouring State
of Rhode Island, with a population at the last
census of 174,260 persons, the draught has been
completed, the claims of exemption heard and de-
cided, and the result is 19 soldiers! The remainder
have either proved alienage, physical disability,
non-liability, from under or over age, or have paid
their money or had it paid for them by their friends.
If the State of New York be in the same mood as
Rhode Island, contain a similar proportion of aliens,
cripples, sick and infirm persons, end heroes who
prefer to serve their country with purse rather than
person, Mr. Lincoln will draw from it a not very
formidable regiment of 422 men ! The population
of New York is 3,880,735, and any schoolboy can
work out the result on his slate by a simple sum in
the rule of three.

But as arbitrary measures are in fashion, as Mr.
Lincoln tolerates, Mr. Seward approve?, Mr. Stan-
ton urges, and Gen. Dix is ready, on his own show-
ing, to execute them; and as there are 50,000 sol-
diers in New York who have nothing particular to
do, it might be worth the while of the Government,
it' it needs conscripts so sorely as it pretends, to sta-
tion two or three regiments and a few pieces of ar-
tillery in the immediate vicinity of Wall-street,
William-street, and Exchange-place. Every day
froth 11 o'clock until 2 or half-post 2 there are con-
gregated at tho corners of those streets from 500 to
600 men, moatly young and vigorous, in the very
pride and flower of lffe, who are engaged in gam-
bling in stocks and shares. The place is a perfect
Babel for the uproar and confusion of tongues, and
a worse than Homburg or Baden Baden for demo-
ralisation and cupidity. The people who frequent
these purlieus are of no use to the community.
They add nothing to the national wealth. They are
as sordid as thimble-riggers, and have as little heart
in which they speculate.
or conscience as the scrip

Why should not Gen.l)ix make a beginning by itn.
pressing the whole gang and sending them off to
the Army of the Potomac? Such a measure would
be illegal, it is true, but, in the general's own words,
"it would leave its impress upon the mind of the
country for years to come," and would have the
advantage of ridding the city of New York of the
500 or 600 people whom it could most easily spare,
and perhaps save from the operations of the draught
an equivalent number of carpenters, masons, long-
shoremen, and other honest working people. The
measure, in addition to these advantages, would be
strictly in accordance with the " Austrianization
of the Republic which Mr. Seward foresaw as the
inevitable result of the election of a President
against the wishes of a majority of the people.

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