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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-06-19
pr8rIsHED (DAuT} By
EDGAR SNOW DEN, JR.
az OFFICE-No. 1o4 Sing street, over
q .Gne's. formerly French.sl Book Store

q e -; - (forner7y French's) Book Store.
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
The Philadelphia Inquirer has the follow
ipg special letter
D1,LL Run, Va, June l5--The army Of the
Potomac il now on and near the OLD blll 1ton
battlefield The Sd army corps arrived at
Manassas Junction Ok Monday morning,
The lst and llrh Corps are at CeutreVllle'
The remainder Of the Army Of the Potomac,
The 2d, 5th, 9th and 18th Corps viii proDaoI9
reach here tonight:
Major General Hooker and the retlnno at
1acJ,ad 10 the general headquarters are on
eheir way 20 this point, and oy to-molro" noon
or night the army will be together again.
Our cavalry commands have during the
whole time been on our tanks. They have
done invaluable service as scouts, gaming IN
formation Of the enemy s movements ana ma
king reconnoissance5 which lmpedeo tne enc
ny progress, ;,
General Gregg, with his division. is and has
been operating in the ilelghboTiiooa OF v az.
venton and White Sulphur Springs. -,
Gen. Duties Division, lat9 Gen. AVerlll ),
are at the base Of the Blue Ridge, near Ash
by's Gap.
General Buford, with the regulars, has com-
rletely blocked up Thoroughfare Gap, thereby
preventing the approach Of the Confederates
10 this nejghborhood, through that channel.
Colonel Taylor, Of the lst Pennsylvania
Cavalry now temporarily IN command OF
General Wynd ham 8 Brigade, has had the
ORANGE and Alexandria Railroad under his
special care.
General Pleasanton, now in command Of the
cavalry corps, has his headquarters II the
neighborhood Of Warrenton Junction.
Our cavalry have ca ptured many prisoners,
and brought away numberless "contrabands,
from whom valuable information has been OBJ
tanned
Among the prisoners captured is Captain
Huchins, Of Stuart's Cavalry. He was with
General TWiggs in Texas, when Iwiggs sur
rendered his command and the Government
property.
Among the most important seizures made
by our cavalry has been that Of a bag contain
ing mail letters written by the ssContederate
soldiers and addressed to their friends IN che
South.
Not only was the bag and It's contents cap
cured, but also the parties who had It IN
charge, thus breaking up mail route that
has doubtless been in constant operation TOR
considerable length Of time.
Among the letters captured, was one writ
zen by an Aid TO General Longstreet, to his
wife living in Alabama. After talking. OF
family matters the writer goes on to tell what
is the object Of their movement North. lie
says that they will ultimately send 9 cavalry
force into Pittsburg, and sack and burn the
roWn, while their lnfantry are to plllage and
plunder sundry parts Of Maryland and Penn
sglvania.
PHILADELPHIA, June 17.-The Inquirer
has special despatch from Washington, da-
aad last night, which contains the following
Intelligence:
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-06-19
FROM Y IICKSB(KG


tack from Gen. Johnston IS expected tor some
days Firing is continued upon sleksFurs
from Ill sides. There are no nc further denoQ'
STATIONS On the Louisiana side
POINT De SOTO, OPPOSITE Y ICNaBuRG,
June l0.-Dy the arrival OF the ram Switzer.
land from the mouth Of the Red river o-day,
We have information OF the destruction Of
simsport on the Atchafaaya, OF the 18th inst
4 reconnaissance by the Switzerland On the
Sd discovered battery of SIX ieid pieces. ana
a regiment Of infantry holding the slioro.~~
The Switzerland engaged them and wa2
struck seven times, one shot seyering 1;le
steam, ipe~ The damage waB repaired aud
Capt Walker, with the Lafayette and Pitts
burg, silencad the battery and burned the town
and conlmissarY stores. The river Is now clear
between Pert Hudson and 'lcksburg.
HEADQUARTERS, WALNUT HILLS, EIcK5~
BURG. June l2--Evening, The best lntoE-
nation credits Gen. Loring, at jackson, With
5000 Confederates, Gen Walker, at Aazoo
CITY, with 5000, and Gen. Johnston, 81
Canton, with $1,000 These will be nasse5S$
10 attack Gen. Grant rear: but he holds ali
the fords on the Black river which must oe
crossed by Generals Johnston and Loring: -
Confederate cavalry are continually scouting
outside Of Cen Grant 8 lines. :. x~.,
hurg, and the citizens desire It's capitn1auons
which Cen Pemberton absolutely refuses.
" WAsH1NGTON, June l7.1he news iTom
Vicksburg for several days past has been IN
important. All the advices received reple=
sent the siege as progressing steadily and every
thing going on we'll.
At a public meeting in Montgomery county,
Indiana, on Saturday, resolution was passed
declaring that 10 enrolment Of the militia in
that county should take place. A COMMITTEES
was appointed, who waited on the Commis.
sioner and read the resolution, and notified
him that an attempt to enroll would be st his
neril, The United States Marshal will arrest
the parties iulueditely.
AZ the recent burning of Bluffton, S. c., by
the Federal troops, about forty private resi-
dences were destroyed, and nearly one hundred
stores, out houses, &c.
Co), Watkins, of the 9Th Kentucky cavalry,
has been presented, by order Of Gen. Rose.
Grams, With the horse, equipments and sabre
which belonged to Col. Williams, lately exc
cnted at Franklin. Tenn, as spy. Col. Wat
lips it will be remembered, was personally ~
strumental in making his arrest,
Walter Cullen, the proprietor OF the New
York Saloon Philadelphia, was shot on Wed
nesdav BY lieutenant of the 58th Pennsylva
MA regimeut, named David Ludwig. Lud
v;g had been ounging about the place during
me afternoon, and at the time Of the occur
renee had walked up to Cullen and engaged il.
conversation With him. After some words
had nassed Ludwig pulled from bis belt re-
volyer, put it to Cullens breast, pulled the
trigger, the whole load passing into bis breast
Il 70
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THE GATE. CITY

GExL ScHBNoK's- hucS1seQR Xhs
loyal men Of Maryland and Dslswars =.
exceedingly ahxious 70 lhavS aAAl
Schenck return to the command Of the
Middle Department; and, 70 dis end,
the Union Congrsssassu Of Delaware, Ms-
rylaud, and 0hie have solicited the Pres
ident and Seorstary Of War to give the
command Sod iaauiM p Colenel ppAn
Piatt, General Schenck's late chief Of stsn.
COL Plat has besas iortunsts enough 70
win the confidence Of the men who 90
lately carried Maryland and Delaware.
and they speak IN the warmest terms OF
his ability. energy, and patriotism. To
further, this arrangement Genenl D.
Tyler. OF Connecticut, has declined IN IA
vor Of Col. Piatt. The Presidsnt IND
Secretary listen favorably, butare troubled
about the question of rank.-[N. Y. TIb-
une.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-12-31

AFRAxK CosrEssIuxe-The New York
Herald, which for aweek past has been
running Gen. Grant for the PrssidenCy,
says of President Lincoln:
Owe abandon Honest Old Abe a. .
hopeless case. We have pulled him. We
have praised him, We have helped him in
every way, but can get no good out Of
him. To use one Of his own homely SIM
lies, he is crooked stick, that cannot be
bent, and that will have to be broken"
Which means that President Lincoln ID
the only Chief Magistrate for many years
past who woald not throw : sop 70 the
Herald.--[ Boston Journal.
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~A Western paper records the pre-
sentation of beautiful silk dress by fifty
five citizens Of Burlington, Wisconsin, to
Miss Isabella Crawford, who demonstra-
ted her pluck and patriotism by knocking
down one John Russell, Of Dover, for
having insulted the memory Of her brave
brother who fell At the battle Of Chicka-
manga.
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The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-07-24

III. The Commissioner Of Internal Rer-
enue IN each Congressional District has been
authorized by the Secretary of War, and d.
rected to the Secretary of the Treasury, TO
receive from drafted persons, who desire 10
pay it for the purpose of exemption, In" mon
ey above specified. On receipt of this sum
the Collector of Internal Revenue shall give
the drafted person paving il duplicate receipts.
One copy of these receipts shall be delivered
to the Board OF Parchment on or before the
day the drafted person is required to report
for duty; and when so delivered TO the Board
the drafted person shall be furnished bv the
Board with certificate of exemption, Form
81 Regulations OF Provost Marshal Generals
Bureau,) stating that The person is discharg-
I'd from further liability under that draft, by
reason of having paid the sum of three humid
red dollars.
III. the Provost Marshal shall make out,
within the first Monday of every week, an
abstract of persons 10 whom exemptions from
military service shall have been granted by
the Board during the week previous. form
H., All receipts or certificates of deposit
delivered TO the Board by persons claiming
exemption on account Of having paid the
required sum of money, shall accompany the
abstract.
JAMES b. FRY,
Provost Marshal General.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-07-24
The District Convention.

Notwithstanding the rain there Wa. good
representation of the ID district at the con-
ventlon at the Junction on Tuesday. 1t
seemed to be general outpouring of the
people who came together of one mind, and
that was demand that our former able rep-
resentative, Hon Justin S. Morrill,, be return
ed to Congress Notwithstanding his disincli-
nation to 60. As there appeared but one
mind among the members of the convention
it did not take long to complete the business
of the gathering.
After his nomination Mr. Morrill, made a
very good address to the assembly some
thing of personal nature, but mostly relat-
ing to the affairs Of our country. He took
cheerful view of our present condition and
future prospects, and urged upon the people
their imperative duty of furnishing men and
means for carrying on the war.
1t is very we'll known that the nomination
Tor the fourth time was thing unsought and
un"Shed for by Mr. Morrill,, yet there was a
very general reluctance on the part of the
people to let him off in this critical period of
our countrys history; and like loyal man
MIR Morrill, bowed to the will of the people.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-07-24

washington, ID. u, June 80, 1868.
CIRCULAR,
No. 81.
l. Section 10 Of the act approved March
3. 1863. d" for enrolling and calling out the
national forces, and for other purposes" is as
follows:
SECTION IL. and be 1t further enacted.
That any person drafted and notified to ap-
pear as aforesaid. may. on or before the day
hxed for his appearance, furnished an accepta-
BILE substitute to take his place in the draft
or ne may pay to such person as the Secretar,
OF W ar may authorize to receive il, such sum,
not exceeding three hundred dollars, as the
Secretary may determine, for the procuratiOn
OF such substitute, which sum shall be fixed
at uniform rate by General Order made
at the time of ordering draft for any State
or territory; and thereupon such person SO
furnishing the substitute, or paying the mon
ey, shall be discharged from further liability
under that draft. And any person failing to
report after due service of notice as herein
prescribed, without furnishing substitute.
or paying the required sum therefor, shall be
deemed deserter, and shall be arrested By
the Provost Marshal, and sent to the nesres,
military post for trial by court-mart;al. unless.
upon proper showing that he is not liable to
do military duty. the Board of Enrolment
shall relieve him from the draft"
1t is hereby announced that the amour, 70
be paid, in accordance with the forepoing
section ofthe Enrolment act BY any person
who may be drafted, in order to secure ex-
empton from service. has been fixed by the
Secretary of Wax at thee hundred dollars, :
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-07-24
Capture of Port Hudson.

After the unsuccessful assaultsIupon the
enemy's works Gen Banks labored to reduce
the place by continuous bombardment and
by closing all the avenues by which the en-
envy could procure supply of provisions
On the evening of the 9TH, Gen Gardner
sent out a flag OF truce he had heard of the
capitulation of Vicksburg, and desired Gen
Banks to give him such information as he
might have concerning the truth or faisity of
the rumor. Gen Banks sent him copy of
Gen Grants dispatch. giving the full particu-
lars of the equalization of Vicksburs. Gen
Gardner then expressed his willingness to
surrender onthe same terms. Gen Banks
declined. and announced that he would accept
nothing short of an unconditional surrender.
Gen Gardner had before expressed his deter
mination to hold out to the last extremity,
and seemed sanguine both of the ultimate
success of the confederate arms in holding
the Mississippi, and in his own ability to de-
fend his works until he should be relieved
by an attack on Gen Banks rear. The in
telligence of Gen Grants splendid triumph
at Vicksburg, however, and the advance OF
strong column into the interior of Mississippi,
cutting off his expected relief, speedily dis
PEELED Gen Gardeners hopes. Disheartened
and discouraged by the news he had receiy-
ed. Gen Gardner surrendered his force un-
cunditionaliy on the morning of July Sth.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-07-24

An editorial in Walton's Journal thus puts
say that the conscription act is uuconstitu-
tional. Every reasonable man will admit
that the govei nment has chosen the least
cumbersome and also the most Just manner
Of raising men for the army. In regard to
the decision by New York Judge that the
CONSUMPTION act is unconstitutional, the Jour
nal says
" This Judge decided that the President
may call for volunteers, or call outM militia,
OF both. Well: the Government has called
for volunteers, and is calling for them now,
but the men do not come fast enough Now
what if it shall drop the draft and call ont the
militia! What will be the effect as to the per-
sons liable to do military duty? 1t is simply
this: every man between Is and - years
Of age is liable to be ordered into the service;
whole families, neighboshoods, towns and
counties may be striped of all able-bodied
men, and all the exemptions mercifully pro-
vided in the CONSUMPTION act would be lost
New York. Pennsylvania, and New Jersey
have recently called out the miIitia-not BY a
draft, which distributes the men widely, but
by regiments, which sweeps every man. DO
the mob want that , Does any body want
it? Does any body wish to see every able
bodied man in Montpelier, or Washington
County, exempting nobody, to be ordered
into the army? Werepeat that this would
be jumping out of the frying-pan into the
fire. Even fthc militia were to be drafted. the
draft would be worse than the CONSUMPTION,
because the liberal exemptions of the latter
would all be cut off. The fact is that Con-
gress considered this question on both sides,
and the CONSUMPTION act was designed as q
relief to the people
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-07-24
WAR DEPARTMENT.
PROvosT MARSHAL GENERALS OFFICE, {
Washington, ID. c, June 2i, 1863. \
JAMES b. FRY,
Provost Marshal General.

PROvosT MAE>HAL GENERALS OFFICE,
Washington, ID. C., June n, 1863.
CIRCULAR
No. IS.
REGULATIONS IN REGARD To SUBSTITUTES.
1st. ANY person enrolled and drafted may,
at any time, on or before the time at which
he is ordered 10 repor: at a rendezvous
obtain and present to the Board of Enroll
ment of the district in which he resides, 9
substitute.
ID. The substitute must be in every res
pect suitable for the military service, which
shall be determined by the Enrolment Board
in the manner prescribed for examining re-
cruiis.
Sd. Every substitute. after being examined
and approved BY the Enrolling Board, shall
enlist in the service of the United States
Form i0.l
18th. And when he shall have Sd enlisted
and reported to the Provost Marshal for
duty, the Board shall give the person who
has furnished the substitute a certificate OF
exemption according 10 Form 81, in Regu-
lations for the government of the Bureau of
the Provost Marshal General setting forth
that the person is :. not properly suhlectto dc
military duty during the time for which he
was drafted by reason of .hdriRg
furnished an acceptable substitute ."
9TH. Every substitute, " 10 shall have en-.
listed and reported 10 the Provost Marshal
shall be held suhiec: - ali pains and penal
ties for Gesertion or other offences, in the
same manner as other soldiers, and the per
son who has furnished the substitute shall
not be responsible for the acts of the substi-
tute. committed after he shall have enlisted
and reported TO the Proves: Marshal for duty
as required in the preceding paragraph.
9th. The Beard of Enrolment will give
public notice. after draft has been made
that they will, between such hours on every
dav, up 10 the time when the drafted mer
are ordered to report At a rendezvous, hear
propositions for substitutes, and examine per
sons so offering.
,th- All persons who NAV be drafted ant
/ who desire 10 present substitutes, shall Civ,
not ice in writing TO the Beard of Enrolment
that on such dav they VIII present a substi
tute. giving his name. residence age, and
stating whether he is an alien or citizen.
Sin. The Board Of Enrolment shall make
the enlistment paper # substitutes in tripli-
cate. of wi'ich one shall he forwarded TO the
Provost Marshal General, one 10 the Adlu-
tant General Of the Army, and the other re
tanned among the records OF the Enrolling
Beard.
( 9th. Substitutes. after being enlisted, arr
TO be considered as. in all respects. on The
same footing with other soldiers, receiving
the same hounties. pay, and allowances
and amenable to the same regulations and
discipline.
10th. After all the substitutes have beer
accepted and enlisted in 4 district, the Board
o: Enrolment viii render statement Tao
oording 10 Form ~ TO tina Provost Marshal
General.
JAMES Il. FRY,
Provost Marshal General.
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-07-24
What a Mob was Guilty of.

The Tribune sums up the proceedings of
the mob in the following resume:
Passing over the premonitory symptoms,
We come at once to the summing up, which
1t may be more Immediately ineligible to
state at once. The fact, then, are these ::
The men who set on the bowling MODS Of
yesterday, Monday, July Is, 1868, are guilty
of aggravated assault and oattery-of grand
larceny-of criminally resisting the execu-
ton of the laws with armed violence-of
treason-of insurrection-of arson-and of
murder. The catalogue lacked but one at
rocity to prove itself natchless in brutal vii
lainy in the whole worlds history of even
mob atrocity and violence; and so this mob
these amiable gentiemen-before they
were content to rest their tired heads upon
their innocent pillows, added this last crown
Ing item to the christian-like list of their
good Samaritan deeds-they deliberately set
on fire, over the heads Of the terrified and
screaming children, an orphan asylum -
Does this fact cali for comment"
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1863-07-24
Meade and Lee.

The report received last week as our pa
per was ready for the press, that Lee had
escaped across the Potomac with his army,
leaving only his wounded and some prisoners
in our hands, proved to be true. How and
when he retreated is told in another column.
Why he escaped with so little loss, there is
diversity of opinion among the army cores
pondents. The people at the North believed
that Meade would follow up the enemy, after
the defeat at Gettysburg, and attack him on
this side of the Potomac. The Commanding
General knew that the enemy was numeri-
cally about his equal; that he was strongly
entrenched; that to assault his position sue
cessfully would involve great loss of life, and
that the attacking party must suffer much
more terribly than the defending army. On
Sunday night, the 18th, Gen. Meade con-
vened his corps commanders, laid the case
before them and announced himself in favor
of assaulting the enemy's works on Monday
morning at daylight. After mature consid-
Grafton, which consumed most of the night.
on voting it was found the counsel stood
three in favor of and seven against making
the attack. With such a decided majority
against him, Gen. Meade did not see fit to
assume the responsibility Of ordering an at
tack upon the enemys position, but waited
for reinforcement which he knew were on
the way. Before they arrived, however, Lee
had crossed the river.
Meade will, of course, be much censured
for having thus delayed. But irextenuation
it must be remembered that many of the
Federal troops who took part in the battles
of Gettysburg did so Immediately after long
and fatigung marches, without time to rest :
that the terrible conflicts seriously shattered
Meade's forces that he had received but
few reinforcements and those of a kind lutte
to be depended upon; and that the enemy
would fight desperately being strongly en-
trenched. With these facts before him, to-
gether with the adverse opinions of so many
of his corps commanders, it is not at all sur
prising that the Commanding General should
hesitate to order an immediate attack. 1t
must be confessed that much disappointment
was felt throughout the North when the
news came of Lees escape, but whether it
were better that $4,000 or 10000 loyal men
should lie dead and wounded on the nights
of Williamsport, and Lees army probably
defeated or that he should escape to be more
successfully, and at less cost, defeated in some
other place, every man must form his own
opinion.