New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-27
CITY ITEMS.


CITY ITEMS.
The DRArr.-Not less than $50 900 names have
been enrolled in New.York, of these not more than
900, 900 arc between l8 and IS years Of age The
fremen, policemen, and military men number about
co., 600. These who claim to be physically incapaci'
tsted for service will number ut least 80 O00 leaving
10000 liable to draft. During the past week about
25, 900 persons have appeared before tho Com
missioners and claimed exemption, and exemption
has been granted TO nearly 1000 Of these applicants.
Some of the Commissioners hold evening as well as
day sessions with view t. O speedy completion OF
their preliminary lsbors. The most active prepare.
tons are making for the draft. search has been
made throughout the records at Albany with view
of aseertauipg how many men have been furnished
by the different counties OF the State and especially
in New York and Brooklyn. AS tar as can be ascer-
tanned from 5000 to TO- 900 needed to ill up the
quotas of this city, and 900 or 5000 Tor Brooklyn.
In addition to Judge Advocate General Anthon
duties ~ Chef Commissioner, he has assumed the
still more difficult tax Of deciding from euch EVIL
dence 40 may be brought before him, how many men
are really required under the draft not only IN New"
York and Brooklyn, but IN the couotes Oh Qusehs,
Suffolk and Richmond. A conference was heid on
Saturday morning by the several War Coinmis'ees'
and steps taken to AID Gen. Anthon.
! The clerks in the Controllers office have Deeh
set to work to copy the records OF payments made oil
city bounty from September Sd, the time OF com
mepcement; and other means OF Information invoked.
From the mass of figures that will be collected, ana
by comparisons with the official records, The iac's
will be Appropriated or precisely determined
IL should be Understood that volunteers are cfe-
dited TO the counties, towns wards where they
may reside at the time Of enlistment, rather than 70
the places where their names are recorded. mus
many ia The adjoining counties have accepted Iie
Nev'.York and Brooklyn bonnties; but they VIII
no, be couuted on our quotas if the fact appear rs
il should according to the order on the enlistment
rolls MANY men IRON this city have also enlisted
elsewhere, and should, by the rule 10 credited here
But ia greater number Of instances no facts eppear
on the records but the names ages, &C., of the
volunteers and therefore there is 10 means OF ascer-
tanning where they should DO credited, except by
Learning where they Resided. In the cases OF thoee
volunteers VINO lett families, which have since ap-
Piled for and obtained relief there VIII DO no dlIl-
euIty.
General Anthem has already set about this per-
picking work and is preparing his plans, which
when carried out will develop the foil truth OF the
mstter.
Board OF ALDERxEy.-At the meeting Of the
Board OF Alderman ON Saturday Mr.. Ottiwel
offered resolution calling upon the Committee on
national affairs to receive plans by ADVERTISING for
suitable monument to be erected 10 the memory OF
the volunteers from this city who have fallen in the
battles for constitutional liberty and the Committee
select one, and submit il TO the Board for action.
Mr. Dayton thought the matter should be discussed,
and conended tha, the reference was inappropriate.
Mr. Ottwell said that the resolution only called upon
the Committee TO receive plans, and that he had no
objection 10 tie gentleman from the Ninth discussing
tue subject for hour or more. After further OF
position from Mr. Dayton and Mr.. froment the refer
ence adopted. The Mayor sent in the nomina-
ton of John j. Phelps for Street Commissioner,
whereupon Mr.. Boole said he would really like TO
know who tho gentleman was. Mr.. Dayton
gave the required information, and in so dong paid
high compliment 10 Mr.. Phelps. motion 10 con-
firm the nomination was lost by vote OF TO 3.
The County Clerk sent in tue names Of I52 Commits
slonefs OF Deeds whose terms Of office will expire
this year. The Board adjourned until TUESDAY az
ternoon.
EARLY PRrsTIsG IN AsERicA.-In wandering
through the graveyard of Trinity Church a day or
two since. my eye was arrested by gravestone on
the north side Of the church to the memory Of WILL
LIAM BRADFORD, who, il is mentioned, was born
in Ieicestersbire, old England, in 1910, and came
over 10 America in 1892 before the City Of Phiadel
pha was laid out. He printer 10 this Govern
meut" the inscription continues for upward Of fifty
years." and died May 49, 1852, aged niHefy-s,co
years. This monument was much injured during
the building Of the present church edfce and in an
other generation or two will entirely disappear. Yet
the memorial Of Bradlord's resting place ought not
thus to be obhtersted. He first established the
printing press in the vast region south of Boston.
lie over with Penn, or the Welcome, In lbS2, /
and began his in Philadelphia, in or near to
which city he fixed his fret printing office, early
nj least rs 1856, and paper-mili on the Wissahck-
on, near Germantown, very soon aierward-the !
fret paEer-mi ever erected IN tho United States; |
and appears by printed prospectus yet preserved,
he wan the fret person who proposed III America 10
print the Holy Bible. Ills WAS A. ID. l6cS, IN Penn
sylvapia. lie mingled largely aud actively in the
stirring events which 6gitated colonial life III that
ltigious province, and maintained with success his
printing press against the efforts Of the proprietary
GovcTument TO break II down. He came ~ this city
1892 ut the invitation OF Gov. Fletcher, ana was
printer TO the Crown rs Lis itaph records, for the
space OF half century. la this Office lie amassed,
honestly, great wealth, which lie left 10 numerous
descendants, who have been among the most distin-
gui.hed families of New-York, New.Jersey and
Pennsyl " aniathe Ogd,n ms, Van Courtands, Creigh-
tous Bondenos aud others Of less public reputation
but nigh private worth. The Hon. William Brad /
ford, Attorney General under tho administration OF
Washington was bis great grandson The name OF
the trst printer of New-York, Pennsylvania and
NewJerey surely ought not To be suffered willing
ly Gle; and submit II 10 the printers associations
Of this state and TO the corporation OF Trinity Church,
of which corporation Bradford was vestryman
from 1903 TO no, whether some suitable monument
ought not TO be erected the spot where the re-
mans Of the Father Of the Press now reposel NJ. D.
WASTE or PowDEK-On Saturday afternoon
salute Of 100 guns WAS fired in the Park, under the
auspices OF the Tammany Hall General Committee,
in honor Of the recent Democratic victories in ln-
DIANA Ohio, and Pennsy lyania. When the Repub-