The Oregon union. (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1863, 1863-02-28
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Dates to Feb. 18th.

2enS OF the united States between the ages
of Ii and 40 constitute the National forces,
and shall be liable to perform military duty
when called out by the President. Sec
tion second gives the classes of persons
xempt, including the Vice President,
Judges of the various courts of the United
States, heads Of Departments, and such
persons as are physically or morally unfit
for service; such as-are required for the
protection and support of aged or infirm
parents OF helpless children. The third
section divides the national forces not now
in service into three classes-First, those
between eighteen and thirty, and unmarried
above that age; second, all others-second
class not to be called into service till the
first is exhausted. Section fourth provides
that for greater convenience in enrolling
and organizing, the United States shall be
divided into military districts, answering
to Congressional districts of States and
Territories. There shall be a Provost
Marshal, with the rank of captain of cav
airy for each district, subject to the orders
of the Provost Marshal General. Other
sections provide for sub districts, and the
appointment before the tenth of March,
and in each alternate year thereafter, Of
an enrolling officer for each district, who
is to enroll all persons subject to duty be-
fore the first of April, to include those Of
the first class, who are subject for two
years to be called into service, and to serve
for three rears or during the war; and
when they are drafted into service they
shall be upon the same footing as volun-
teers.
Another bill, introduced into the Sen
ate by Sumner, provides for the enroll
ment Of able-bodied blacks between Is and
As, who have been freed by Congress or
the proclamation Of the President, by the
commanding officers of the department
within which they shall be found. They
are to be organized, armed, equipped and
mustered into service for the war. Their
pay is to be ST per month, one-half to be
retained until the end of their service
Another section authorizes the voluntary
enlistment of the free blacks between the
ages Of Is and IS, with the same pay as
white volunteers. The aggregate number
of men enrolled under the Act is not to
exceed three hundred thousand.
Let the Abolitionists try to enforce the
above conscription law in the present tenn
per of the country and the administration
would be likely to find itself in the condi-
ton of Louis PHILIPPE in February, 1913
Harrisburg, Feb. 12th.-Governor Cur
tin sent a message to the Legislature to-
day in reference to arbitrary arrests, con-
tending that Congress alone has power to
suspend the writ Of habeas corpus, and
recommending the passage of a resolution
requesting Congress to take such action
as may bring the guilty to Punishment and
relieve the innocent. While the Governor
admits that these arrests were necessary
at the commencement of the rebellion, he
does not think there is any occasion for
them at the present time.
[Tho recent triumphs of the Democracy,
and their determined spirit not to submit
further to the outrages of the Abolition
"architects of ruin have taught Gov.
Curtin and other obsequious tools of the
administration, that it will not do to trife
longer with the rights and liberties of the
people Ed Union,
The Mississippi is not yet opened.
Vicksburg still holds out. The project of
digging the famous "canap has been
"gin out +" Another route for it is to be
surveyed. The ship canal bill far the west
via. the Lakes, was defeated in the House
Feby. 9th, by 10 majority. The Senate
has passed bill remoddeling the entire
postal system.
TWe wish they'd remodel their officials
in the transportation and delivery of the
mail and make them attend to their duties.
Ed. Union.1
The bill makes all Offices yielding over
one thousand dollars per year, appointive
by the President, less than that by the
Postmaster-G General, and abolishes all per-
quistes. Drop letters to be charged two
cents. There must be other prominent
features in the bill, not given in the con-
else dispatches.
Seward has made an official denial that
Mercier (French Minister at Washington)
had been commissioned by the Fedeal
Government to make any ,overtures for
peace to JEFF and the rebels.
The House passed a bill Feb. 10th, pro-
viding a Territorial Government for Mon
tana Territory, lying contiguous to Oregon
ard Washington. The Missouri Emanci
patton pill passed the Senate Feb. 18th,
providing Missouri shall pass an Emanci-
patton Act within twelve months, when
twenty millions of dollars in 4 per cent
bonds will be delivered to that State, or
condition said Emancipation Act shall
abolish slavery not later than July 1875.
IF the Act for the free manumission is not
passed before July 1868 and slavery ex-
cluded forever, the bonds are not to exceed
ten millions of dollars.
Union forces entered Lebanon Tenn,
on the 8th. They captured 600 rebels;
mostly Morgan's command. Many field
officers were taken. The Confederate
steamer Florida is reported as having made
Z prizes off Cuba and off Bahama Banks.
No q. S. war vessels at or near Nassau on