The national Republican., 1862-08-11
NEWS ,TeMs.

O..
Edwin Forrest has given 81 900 to aid in re.
efuiang for the FedersT srsy.| ,r"r's
KENDALL County, In Illinois, has voted u
bounty fund Of Sl6, 900 for volunteers. '7--
The New York poet once employees have
given IS 1000 to aid eulistments.
At town m"e,ing held Ia Barrins stou, X. l.,
bounty OF $500 was offered to each v0lun.
tssr. =
General Csss and Senator Chandler, Of Mich.
igsn, hsye each subscribed 1000 to the war
fdsd 10 Detroit.
a Aessrs. Butler Il Carpenter, Of Philadelphia,
have received the contract for furnishing the
revenue stamps under the internal revenue
lsv. ..lTr-. r..
The citizens Of Bangor, Maine, had "drili"I
on Monday afternoon, turning out about 900
strong. Vice President Hamlin drilled with
tho COMPANY in bis ward oil the afternoon.
SENATOR DooLrrrLr.-The Milwaukee Ss,,ti-
mel announces, by authority, that Senator Doo-
little Is not q candidate for place on the su-
prsme bsroh.
Every white man drafted into the army,
while negro volunteer Is rejected or exempted,
goes TO the war as that negro's substitute, with.
~~' ~Sy' NyS Ap~uSeos
Count Johannes, suppoaipg himself atfront.
ed by Governor Andrews, of Massachusetts,,
during recent visit TO bis Exosllency, has In
stltuted suit against him for damages, which
be moderately estimates at $4,000.
We learn, says the Hagerstown Herald, that
every male inhabitant of Winchester has been
required to take the oath Of allegiance, and
that the town WAS surrounded by p!ckets, 20 as
to prohibit mgr, 20 and egress, until the object
was accomplished.
Smiths Army Register Of the Northwest,
states the number Of volunteers from Illinois,
Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, Iowa.
Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado
at 2S7,5Sl. OF these Illinois furnished 80 ,slS
and Indiana 49096.
Col. +. F. Bowie, who was arrested several
days since on the charge Of aiding deserters,
and was released until yesterday, appeared
then at the Provost Marshal's office, and was
discharged upon bis parole not to give aid or
comfort to the rebels
ALL PERSONS SWORN. We learn that every
male inhsbitant Of Winchester. Va, has been
required to take the oath Of allegiance, and
that the town was surrounded with pickeis, 10
- 10 prohibit ingress and egress until the
object was accomplished. Hagersto,on Herald.
PATRIOrrsN OF ST. LOUIS Business MEN.-Tbe
merchants and business men OF ". Luuis have
agreed to suspend business at four O'Clock, D.
N each day, to give employees an opportun.
y 70 drill In the several militia companies now
forming In that city.
sMxs, TEE NovkILsT, RErxBuRsEp.-W. Gil.
more Simms, the great Southern novelist, In
consideration Of the patriotic services he has
rendered South Carolina, has been presented by
bis friends with $4,000 to aid In rebuilding biz
homestead, recently destroyed by fire.
There Is In operation, In Aaverhill, Mass, a
new machine for sewing The soles on to the bot.
tom of shoes, which has heretofore been done
by hand, which Is capable, by application Of
steam. Of sowing three hundred pairs Of shoes
per day. and by hand power two hundr. d
pairs. The work 10 admirably performed, and
10 quite new era in this part OF the business.
A GREAT RAM-wm. Il. Webb, q New Yors
ship builder, has contracted with the Govern
ment to build an Iron steam ram, to be covered
With elk inch iron, to have two revolving tur-
rets like the Monitor, the bow to be covered
with twelve inch iron, and 10 have solid iron
ram halt the length Of the vessel. Price
S1,226, 900.
the RATIO OF BIRrHs IN War; 1t has often
been asserted that the proportion Of males to
females born In time Of war IL greater than dur,
Ing 1.-THE piping times Of peace" This appears
70 be confirmed by the statistics of Providence,
Rhode Island, In 1861. the number of mascu.
lines born having been 936, against 1s9 females
"a difference of fully l8 per cent, This will
afford the good people OF that plucky State
some compensation for the waste of manhood
during The year.
RAILROAD ENaINEERs EXEMPT FROM THE
DRAPr.-Numerous applications being made 10
the War Department by railroad companies to
exempt their employees from the militia, II has
been decided that none but locomotive engi.
neers 10 actual employment when the order for
draft was made can be exempted The exemp.
ton Of telegraph operat, Is is on the ground
that they are practising an art necessary TO
military opera us, and which, being known TO
comparatively few persons, their places cannot
be supplied.
ss-AAAAnssxzann.GaazEalaannl