The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-07-23
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Humors Of the Draft.

The Provost Marshal's wheel and tick
cts play some queer pranks occasionally.
The draft has been completed in the
East, in nearly all cases quietly, and the
results are noticed in our exchanges,
from which we condense some of the
oddities of its operations. They will
show that there was no trick or partiality
practiced in the drawing, for in very
many cases the enrolling officers, and
sometimes the provost marshals them
selves, were lucky enough to draw suit
of blue clothes and gun in the national
lottery.
In Philadelphia, in the first days
drawing, a blind man from the asylum
was sent for to take the tickets from the
wheel in one of the wards, and very
heterogeneous heap of conscripts he
managed to get together Two editors,
W. W. Harding, of the Inquirer, and w.
H. Foster, of the Ledger, Vim. NJ Ire
land, Secretary to the Post Office, PreSi-
dent Fletcher, of the school controllers,
Rev. Morris c. Sutphen, of the Spring
Garden Presbyterian Church, Rev. Robt
C. Matlack, of the Church of the Nativ-
ity, and B. r. Price, of the Methodist
Church, and nearly all the lawyers in
the WaTQ, were 6lect6C.
Preachers seem to have been special
objects of the spite of the Fates, in Mas
sachusetts. We notice in the reports so
far made, that Rev. P Bixley, of Boston,
both the Unitarian preachers of Dedbam,
Rev. B. II. Bayley, and Rev. Calvin S.
Loke; erery protestant preacher in Sa-
lem, Revs. Haskell, johnson, Palmer,
Pickman, Seaver and Wendell; Rev.
Mr.. Hooker of Newburyport; Rev. Wes-
ley Cahart of Pittsfeld; Rev. Mr.. Peck
of Chelsea; Rev. Lemuel Morse, and
Rev. DR. Vanbard Of Worcester, have all
been drafted.
Colleges have "caught it" about as
heavily as churches From Amherst
have been taken Rev. James G. Vose,
professor of rhetoric, Rev. Edward P.
Crowell, professor of Latin, Richard Il.
Mather, assistant professor of Freek, and
Charles A. Hitchcock, son of Dr. Edward
Hitchcock, and curator of the cabinets
and lecturer on natural history. Aaron
+. Warner, son of ex-professor Warner,
of Amherst, was drafted in Cambridge.
It is said that work in the hayward
at Charlestown has been interfered with
by the loss of mechanics who have been
drafted, and that if the tickets run as
heavily against the iron establishments
of East and South Boston, they will de-
lay the completion of the Monitors now
building at those points very seriously.
Instead of riots and bIoodshed, to
which the malignant and reasonable
conduct of the Copperhead leaders of
New York urged their ignorant follow
no q L.
for the Yankees In Providence, Rhode
Island, the conscripts wear red ribbon
in the button-hole as mark of the honor
they have won.
The drafted men at PIattsburg, n. j.,
numbering three hundred, celebrated
their g election by music. procession,
repeated cheers for the President, Pro-
vost Marshal, Gen. Meade, and others.
Bully for the PlattsburghersI
The conscripts at Melrose, Mass, went
in for gay time when they heard they
were elected. A party of them, arrayed
in fantastic uniforms and with strange
weapons, with an American flag, a drum,
horns, tin pans, and other musical in
struments, made tour of the town, call
ing on all their fortunate compatriots.
The Taunton (Mass.) boys mean to
make the best of the draft, and sing in
this way about going into camp:
al IN a raw recruit, with bran new suit,
And three hundrs dollars bOuHty;
IN going dO%n to Springfield town,
To tight for Bristol County"
One of the Smiths in Boston, who
was drafted, on being asked by friend
if he intended to 60, replied, mo. You
see the papers say drafted man gets
S4O2 bounty, the same as volunteer
1t only takes $500 to get exempted, and
I'm going to tell Captain Shaw I'll take
Sl02 and call 1t square"
A chap in Providence being told that
he was drafted, rushed to recruiting
office and enlisted, in order to secure thu
bounty He was not little chagrineC
to learn, when it was too late, that
joke had been played on him-that h
had not been drafted In WHOLESALE
grocery establishment in that city all tn
partners and statesmen have been con
scripted, leaving only colored porter il
the store.
A man in Acton, having present.
mept that he would be drafted, took al
early train for Boston, enlisted and Sc
cured his bounty. His name was tn
first one drawn.
The first day of the draft in Pittsburg
Pa, the enrolling officer, while engage
in drafting others, was himself so fol-
tunate as to draw prize" One of tn
clerks was also drafted, and was the ez
provost marshal One man who ha
been enrolled in two wards, so was drafte
in both. James Hamill, champion oari
man, (who is now in the East preparin
for bis contest with Ward) and hi
brother John was also drafted