Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-12-06
Wood County Reporter.
A Happy Expedieat.

The Governor has nit upon happy exc
pedient for relieving many, and probably
all, those cases where the draft has fallen
with especial hardship. In almost every
county there are instances where families
have already furnished one or more volun-
teers for the war, and where the only re-
naming member capable of bearing arms
has been drafted. There are other cases
Of poor men with large families, who are
unable to procure a substitute, and who
cannot go without leaving their wives and
children dependent, in a measure, upon
public charity.
Such cases should have been met by
proper exemptions. The legislature, how.
ever, was too engrossed with political
wrangling to attend to such practical bus
mess. Gov. SALoNoN now proposes to
remedy it BY appointing the regimental
and company officers of the drafted regi-
m ents not from those now drafted, but
from men who will volunteer as substi
tutes in place of men whose circumstan-
ces are such that the draft falls with pecu-
liar hardship upon them. After selecting
men for officers he will require them to
volunteer as substitutes before receiving
their commissions.
Another good result from this arrange
ment will be that it will encourage the
drafted men to volunteer in the old regi-
ments. Hitherto great obstacle in the
way of such volunteering has been gene.
raj impression among the drafted men that
they were to be allowed the choice of
their company officers.
WHAT 1T WOULD BE WILLING TO Do
The Cincinnati Enquirer, leading Dem
ocratic journal Of the SO called "conserva
tive" stamp, states what it would be viii
ling to concede in order to induce the re-
belhous states to come back into the Union,
as follows:
We would allow the South to take all their prop
erty, slaves Included, into the territories of
the Union, and hold it while the territorial condi
ton lasted. We would not modest a STAKEHOLDER
ing in free State. We would repeal the laws
aboishing slavery in tho District of Columbia, and
We would pass all necessary acts to prevent an in
reference by Northern fanatics with Southern
property Of any description
The Louisville Journal pertinently but
cruelty asks the editor of the Enquirer to
say explicitly whether, if the seeded
States shall be unwilling to come back
kho ho ha 10 for
resolrte and vigorous prosecution of the
war to prevent the permanent disruption
of the country and to establish and per-
petuate national unity.
A MISREPRESENTATION CoRRKoTED.-A
correspondent of the Philadelphia Inqui-
rer writing from Fairfax Court House, un-
der date of Nov. 20, says: "When the
order came to fall back from Thoroughfare
Gap, a momentary panic ensued among
the soldiers, they not knowing the object
of the movement, and fearing that we
were being outfsnked by the rebels. A
Wisconsin and New York Regiment, in
the excitement of the moment, threw
away large number of arms ard pro-
Visions"
Another account adds that the Wscon-
sin regiment referred to was the Goth, or
SIsEL Regiment. A letter i n the Herald
oontradicts the story and states that the
foundation of it seems to have been, that
some of the men being sick, their guns
were piled up and left in charge of a small
guard, there being no transportation for
them. The arms did not fall into the
hands of the enemy. So the Goth stands
indicated.