Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-03-12
WILMINGTON, N. O., MARCH s, 1863.
Arrest on Hicks Zone OF General Wnder's Detsc
uvesl In View YOrk-FulI Partieulara.

Arrest OF Hisks Zone Of General windsr's Det,o.
Hves) In New York-FuI Particulars.
The t:sgrsph has .resdy advised the arrest in New
Hief. .ss arrested in tEs Of the st. NoSo.,
s Of Il. by
abuse Of the administration and profuss praise Of JEFF
40 openly bOssted Of his having held commission
in the rebel army, and spoke Of stonewal Jackson and
change for round Of he be
came very indignant at being offered postal currency
bills He hsdno faith in Iinccns SreensScks he said
d 70 to tax. him into custody that the officer deem
Upon being brought before General Wool the prisoner
hs dsy sS before
snS .aa no was appointed marshal at
psois he tired Service and SreW I'M m SS
mission Upon being asked he had his discharge from
General Wool then asked him what bis business IN New
York when he stated that he North the
Ing the steamer Eagle Havana prisoner fur
thsr states that he stopping at the New York Hotel
General Wool deemed it sdvisabfs to have the baggage
searched but the ocer discovered nothing which tended
to crmRate the accused General Wool then proposed to
release Hicks he would take the oath Of allegiance but
.as asr :s ssetnsd tn: otter in the most positive
then ordered the prisoner to be taken be-
fore Provost Marshsl Draper for examination Here Hicks
vas charged .th being spy who had come North for
denied.
to imprison the until he would give satisfactory
account Of himself or take the oath OF allegiance. Mr.
harsh particular be allowed to
60 on HI, parole until eleven seock this morning To this
General Draper consented and the prisoner went his
way rejoicing
HICKS went out as one OF the officers of the privacer
Retributon which vessel he left at St. Thomas in the
West Indies, before she commenced her cruise. Why
be left her anl especially why he went to New York
is mystery to II he went spy alleged, he
certainly acted strangely, il what he did and said is
correctly reported in the Hsrod. We hardly know
what to make OF il unless the round Of drinks may
help Us TO q solution. Az MI HICKS is known to some
parties here and has been recently referred to in
nection with the RsIribHton, have presumed that
readers would like TO what he has been doing
and what has been done to him. far has been
eertaiued What further sctien was taken, or wheth
er bail was obtained we do not know.
THx Yankee Cohscription Law is rather queer
rangement taking it all round, and feature OF it
strikes converting it rather into revenue law
than military one. We alIude to the 9th section,
which provides that any drafted man must provide
substitute pay to be fixed by the Secretary of
War not to exceed three hundred dollars.
ceed three hundred dollars may be expected hereafter
to enter the LINCOLN army Not many, we presume,
and the result will be that only the very poorest who
without MEANS friends or resources will be forced
into the ranks. The traders spectators professional
classes, all but the very poorest, will get off, and even
these il they have friends may contrive it way
other. The poor eDogrant the struggling laborer,
the penness mechanic may be TAKEN and not always,
hat ~ vnfha oIooL tno
bill designed especially for the use of the most
rsaourceesa class Of foreigners, with the object OF fore
ing the Irish and Germans into the ranks their sin being
the want of not exceeding three hundred dollars.
But Of course 1t will also take large native popula
tion for with oil the boased wealth and freedom and
advancement OF the North there is an nconceivably
large class who live literally from hand to mouth, who
at week end have not cent saved up for the cor
tingencies OF the next.
In the manufacturing districts of the Atlantic States
greenbacks will, no doubt, be plenty enough with
the redundant currency which must be the result of the
issue Of the additional $5o0000 900 authorizedb the
late Lincoln Congress but in the West, where pro-
duoe will hardly pay the cost of transportation money
cannot be raised and the conscrption will be- in fact
military and not merely financial measure Indeed,
this act like oil the other acts Of the LINCOLN govern
meut, bears most heavily upon the West, which is i'm
poverishsd in pocket and drafted in person for the ben
eft Of the manufacturers Of the East That the result
will be discomfort both at the East and the West
among the poorer classes in the former, and among all
classes in the latter appears to be inevitable, but that
this discomfort will riss to such height or assume such
proportions to resolve itself into eecua opposition
to the measure 10 more than hope for at least
for some time We hear much OF Generalization and
insubordination 10 the LINCOLN army that if we be-
eved it all, We might be prepared to the whole
bolition force disband-but we ont,-it s still in the
field and still strong We find in the Northern papers
the most awful accounts presagng the speedy breaking
up Of tn" rebel army, bat it don't break up. We
must take things with many grains OF allowance. STILL
With all these grains Of allowance, the Yankee con-
scripion bill s weaker affair than we had supposed
calculated to relieve ats cheap rate, all who can pay
for it, and to bear hard down upon all who cannot that
M upon the very persons and sections who have already
suffered most by The 1t lie not calculated to give
serious nneasiness 1t will eventually do more harm
than good &c the Northern cause by sowing the seeds
discomfort and division among the Northern people.
We always hate to see Friday come, because We
have then insert The long postal advertisement to