Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-06
Recruiting Affairs.

Enlistments occurred in Boston, yesterday,
faster than at any previous time. Salem has
enlisted SO recruits, twenty-five of whom
signed the papers on Monday. 1t is possible
that the quota of the city will be obtained by
the 18th inst. One hundred and seventy-four
men of the quota of Cambridge-40 4-have
been enlisted. 1t is expected that the pres
ent week will largely increase the number of
recruits. In RoXbury, one hundred and
eighty-four recruits have been obtained, and
the feeling continues of the right kind. In
week Natick has raised 1877 men, twenty-four
more than was asked for. Randolph is alive
to the exigencies of the hour, and is acting
with promptitude. Already she has in the
field 250 of her citizens doing battle for
the common cause, yet at a recent
town meeting it was voted to raise
the sum of $40, 100 to be paid as boun-
ty to a full company of 10l member quota
under the call is but &c. About so men are
now in camp, and the list gains every day.
The town of Sudbury has obtained its full
buota of recruits, IA, who will proceed imme-
diately to camp. AT a meeting of the select
men of Saugus, Monday evening, in view of
the fact that there will be draft if the quota
of volunteers for the town is not full by the
18th, it was voted not to make any special eff
fort to induce men to enlist. The recruiting
office will be kept open, and the town bounty
will be paid to all men who offer, but if men
prefer to stand draft rather than volunteer
and receive a bounty, no effort will be made
to have them change their minds. Old Ha-
verhill has enlisted 100 good able-bodied men
within three days, and there is a fair prospect
| for 1l2 more within the next five days.
| Messrs Jordan, Marsh & Co., wholesale dry
| goods dealers in Boston, have offered to each
| of their numerous clerks who would go to the
war, to pay them their full salaries while alb
sent, and to give them back their situations
on their return. This offer is very gener-
Gus one, as the employees of this firm are
counted by scores. Conway will soon raise
her proportion of men under the new levy;
the bounty, town and individuals, is $40.
Erving has raised nine recruits, one more
than her quota, and has few more left Gill
raised three volunteers, at meeting on the
Both ult. An adjourned war meeting at
Orange, on the Both ult., resulted in securing
several recruits for the 25th Massachu-
sets regiment Coleraine offers the usual
| bounty of 500 for volunteers to fill up the
quota. town meeting at Pittsfeld on the
Sd, legalized the 500 bounty to volunteers
previous to August l5th and unanimously
adopted resolutions in favor of placing the
militia of the United States upon a war foot
ing, so that 100000 soldiers can be sum-
moned to the field at short notice; also in IA
vor of drafting 100000 men in addition to the
100000 already called for, and requesting the
governor of this state to put the militia in
readiness for such a call Florida has sent
her quota of volunteers, six sturdy men, all
for the 9th regiment, to Camp Cameron at
Cambridge. Hancock reports her quota as
full.
The Philadelphia North American says that
within two weeks Il large number of silver and
brass door plates, upon which was the word
Boarding." have been removed from the
doors Of as many as dozen houses in that
city, to throw dust in the eyes of the assessors,
and prevent them from finding the necessary
material for soldiers.
The New York Commercial Advertiser says
that volunteering is going forward rapidly in
all parts of New York, and there is no doubt
that the Empire State will furnish the soldiers
asked of her by the government without re-
sorting to conscriptive measures. This re-
lates, Of course, only to the first 3O0O 900 call
ed for In anticipation that draft would be
resorted to, however, beginning to-day,
(Tuesday) there was considerable excitement
in Brooklyn, yesterday, on the subject, and
the Office Of the city clerk was besieged by an
eager crowd Of men, of all ages and condi-
tons, anxious to file their reasons for exemp-
ton from the operation of the law. Men
who appeared to enjoy the strongest constitu