The weekly Butte record., 1863-09-19


Examining Board in the 3rd district Of Massa-
chusetts Five hundred and thirty conscrip;s
were examined ard divided eff as follows. l,
will be seen that the government received only
thirty -uire men out of the whole number.
/ Furnished substitutes. s...lS
Paid the $500 fee. .............14l
Aliens OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ....ZIl
Physical disability ........ 10
Over - years Of age ... %
Married and over 80. l6
/ Under twenty -
Only sons OF widows ows II
3 Fathers OF moherleSs children - 10
Only sons OF aged parents. ...... 16
! y Oh residents. .-........... SO
10 service March 3.... y
Brothers of orphans under twelve
Two hundred conscript substitutes arrived
at New York recently, from New Haven, in
the steam transport Jersey Blue. when the
vessel arrived opposite thirty-fourih street, two
Of the conscripts jumped overheard and swan
for the shore. The commander of the guard
ordered lis men to fire on the tugitiyes and
one was wounded in the arm and the other in
The back. Both were picked mp and taken
ashore, when the man wounded in the arm mau-
aged to make his escape
The Providence Journal tells of clever and
successful dodge as follows
''Oae Of the substitutes in the barracks. Oh
Friday night, by some means procured Cap
tains shoulder straps secured them upon Lls
uniform, then summoning the guard gave them
renewed instructions to be watchful. as the fel
lows were getting uneasy. and walked out of
the door with official dignity so handsomely
substituted that the guard did not venture to
question the genuinenesS of his character.
4 colored waiter in Hartford, Connecticut
who had beeen struck with the draft, hired
lame darkey friend TO personalc him before
the examining board with 4 view to exemption.
The leg was not unsound enough, the surgeon
passed the bogus coIscript, and he was held
as warrior. He turned pale with fear and
digulged the cheat the result was, both sub
stitue and principal were locked up.
Some of tie enrolling officers in Missouri
have hard time OF it. Mr. Whyback, Depu
ty Provost Marshal Of WAYNE county, was
recently seized by rebel band from Arkansas
and carried # out of that State with his eD-
rolling papers.
The conduct of the draft in the western dis
trict of Massachusetts was sufficiently. dis
crediiable TO destroy any lingering respect for
the conscrption law. A Pittsfeld correspon-
dent Of the Springfield Republican thus des-
cribes it:
The notice to drafted men to appear for ex-
animation was not, as to time sufficiently def
mite. Tue conscripts 10 the town OF Pitlslield
were notified to appear on or before the first
day Of August" and it appears nat the drafted
men in all the towns of Berkshire county were
uotied to appear accordingly. / be result was
nobody knew what day TO so. All was coniu-
sion. Many poor men went TO Springfield and
remained from their business on expense three
four or five days, and then, not being able 10
get an examination, came home 10 disgust
their pairo ism having fallen below zero.
An intOerable crowd OF hundreds of all
classes were crammed into the hall, and on tie
stairs leading to the eurolling officers rooms,
and so terrible was the Jam that many almost
sutf0cated, and perspiruton streaued from
every face. The crowd became the more eager
when they found they were being imposed up
on by being told by he officers in attendance
That the towns were to come IN regular order,
and at the same time they were examining men
from all the towns without any reference to
order. The abuse OF the men was iutOlerable.
They were treated like cattle aud not like mer.
Ministers Of the gospel aud others conscripted
in the terrible crowd were grossly iusulted by
officers and clerks.
The examination in many cases was per-
feet farce. Ia some instances, no examination
at all ; tie conscript being passed or rejected,
as the case might be. Many were exempted
on account OF deficient musculariiy" while
others OF less muScularlty but more money were
accepted. Several were exempted because of
''varicose veins" whilst others thus afflicted,
and in the worst manner, were accepted. One
man was rejected in consequence OF the loss Of
back teeth, whilst another with fewer back
teeth was accepted. The examination in the
first case was slight and in the second case
there was no examination at all. Many were
rejected on account of chronic rheumatism !;
whilst another was admitted by the surgeon
10 have chronic rheumatism, and not to be able
bodied. and yet was accepted.
Much excitement has prevailed in Warren
county, New Jersey, on account OF the partisan
frauds perpetrated in the enrolment for the
draft. 1t is stated that in one town the Re
publican enrolling officer omitted from the roll
twenty-three of his party friends and in an
other town 1t was discovered that fourteen Re
publicans were left ont, while il is not known
that single Democrat IL the county is not en-
! rolled.
Some humorous incidents occurred in Phila-
delphia One man wanted exemption on ac-
count of Q stiff leg. He played it pretty well,
aud it took five men TO give him chloroform,
when his leg was fo-nd TO be no longer rigid.
Another man wished 10 be substitute upon
whose limbs were big nodales Ike SPAWN upon
a horse. The doctor saw at glance that be
was unsound, and dismissed him with reproof
for presenting himself.
Another claimed to be ruptured. The re-
moval of his clothing disclosed q truss With
pads about as big as tea saucers. large euough
to cover a frst-class rupture 90 the Belgian
giant. The doctor could find 20 sign Of rup
ture, bat as rupture sometimes descends and
recedes, the man was told to sit down Hes.t
down trembling like leaf. But the rupture
didn't show itself
One fellow voluntarily relnquisbed bis front
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