Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1862-08-14
MISCELLANEOUS.
The D. S. Draft.
TIE CALL FOR TIE DELAWARE MILITIA.

TIE CALL FOR TIE DELAWARE MILITIA.
The following dispatch was received by
the Governor on Tuesday, 9Th inst:
WAR DErARrMENT,
WASHINGTON, ID. c. Aug. 1861
Hon. WM. Burton,
Governor Of DetrmTe:
SIR: The following order has this dav
been issued:
Ordered, lst. That a draft of three hun
dred thousand men be Immediately called
into the service of the United States, to
serve for nine months, unless sooner dis
charged.
The Secretary of War will assign the
quotas to the States and establish regula-
tons for the draft
I'd. That if any State shall not, by the
eighteenth day of August, furnish its quota
OF the additional three hundred thousand
volunteers authorized by law, the deficiency
Of volunteers in that State will also be
made up by special draft for the militia.
The Secretary of War will establish reg
ulations for that purpose.
Instructions will be sent in few DAYS.
The whole number of troops sent by the
States TO be estimated and apportioned, and
sRy surplus furnished by State above its
proportion will be credited to the draft.
BY order of the Secretary of War.
So G. p. BUCKINGHAM,
- Brig. Gen'l and A. A. G..
On Thursday another despatch was re
celved by the Governor from the War De
partment, directingthe Governor to proceed
with the drafting Immediately, and if tn,
State Laws made no provision for calling ou
the militia, to appoint the officers, make on
the rolls, and the General Government
would provide for their pay.
What order the Governor will take OF
this requisitiOn, says the DeIawuean, we can
rot at this writing say. The organization
ct the militia is peculiarly State affair, ye
the statutes Of Delaware have not a singl
word on the subject. The situation is yer
embarrassing. All the other States hav
their militia laws, and the setting the m:
chlnery In motion is only matter of a fe1
days time. Our Lawmakers must certainl
have thought the millennium was at han
when they abolished the militia law and 81
up IN its place onr imperfect volunteer sy
tenn. The State, however, is bound
comply, and it will devolve upon the Go,
ornor to designate the mode by which ii
requisltion is to be filled
1rIIE UNITED STATES REGULATIONS on DRAF.rrS
The laws of the United States state III
each and every free, able-bodied white ma
citizen who is or shall be of the ACE
eighteen years, and under the age of fort
five years, shall be enrolled in the militia
the captain or commanding officer of t
company within whose bounds such citize
may reside. If any person, whether offic
or soldier, belonging to the militia of a
State, and called out into the service of t
United States, be wounded or disabl
While In actual service he shall be tax
care OF and provided for at the public G
pense. The militia employed in the seryi
oil the v lted States shall be subject to {
SAME rules and articles of war as the troo
ofathe limited States. Courts martial /
the trial OF militia can only be composed
militia officers. The allowance for CLOTH,
TO each non-commissioned officer. rnusicia
and private Of volunteers shall be three d
lars Had fifty cents per month during I
tlmehe shall be in the service of the IIo;t
States. 'f'm % 7.oa -aiaa ~ = a'Tl-'-'7-
When theldraff required to be madesh
De number equal to one-or more conn
me; p each brigade, such draft shall
made " company, to be determined by |.
+" De Drawn blythe lcompandant of t