Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1863-09-02
Draft Items

The Newark IN. j. Mercury says: The
municipality of this city has determined
to pay to every volunteer the handsome
bounty of two hundred dollars. This will
be paid both To new and veteran volun-
teers, making the bounty of the former.
with the 800 paid by the United States
Government, $500; besides the State pay
of Sc per month to wives and widowed
Il ,thers and the monthly amount paid
by the city through the Volunteer Aid
Committee. The bounty received by vet
eran volunteers will reach. with the Gov.
ernment bounty of S4l5, the unprece-
dented amount of six hundred and fifteen
dollars, besides the State and city pay
above noted.
A skedaddler from the draft in Meri
den, Conn.,. returned on Saturday, and
was received by his old associates with
distinguished hOnors, who marched him
up and down the streets and made gen
eral exhibition of him. He will have an
uncomfortable time in that place aftel
this.
One of the many draft dodges is thus
practiced A sharper advertises in the
papers Don't flee your country Don't
resist the draft Learn an honorable
and certain way to avoid it, Inclose 81
to the address Of" &c. The dollar j:
received, and the answer contains only
one word, and that enlist" of course.
Among the drafted persons in the 35th
District. n. Y. are T. W. Hurd, the
Dress Reformer," and F. W. Covet, the
wife poisoner.
The sum of 100000 has already beer
aid by drafted men in Lancaster county
for exemption.
The draft has Just been completed in
Niagara county, New York. The corn,
scripts promptly mounted the "reG
badge of honor" and had good time
generally over their fortune. The Rev.
Mr.. Coe, c. C. Northam, book keeper al
the Journal office, and John Scott. fore
man in the Union, Office, and several
lawyers of Rockport were drawn; also six
colored men.
The enrolment in Wisconsin is nearly
completed. Less than 400 soldiers prop.
erly distributed have repressed violence
and protected the enrolling officers in all
districts where resistance was attempted
or threatened. Two companies have
been keeping order for a few days in Ger
tain towns in Lafayette county, where
the Copperheads boasted the enrolment
should not be made, and organized the
draft.
Speaking Of very low rates of substi
tutes in the loyal States, the Toledo
Blade says: Why is it, that substitutes
can be had at rates like these? No such
terms could be obtained under the other
draft. The answer seems Plain 10 US. II
Is because the offer of the Government to
furnish them at $500 each has broken up
speculation and kept down prices. In
the South, where no such protec-
ton exists, the conscript has tC
pay whatever Is charged substi-
tutes, who. by combination, run pri-
ces up as high as $1,000 and $4,000 each.
Now, will some one tell US wherein the
poor man conscripted is injured by the
Federal law? Which would suffer most
from high rates for substitutes, the poOI
man or the rich one? If people will give
the law 4 fair trial, instead of listening tC
the clamor of demogogues, they and the
country will be better off.
The drafted men of Vermont are now
reporting themselves for duty. They are
to be met with singly and in pairs in all
the public conveyances, going where duty
calls them and glory waits" them.
A letter from Tioga county, n. Y, says:
Although we have had no general riot,
copperheadism has not been quiet. Last
Saturday one of the notifying officers had
his horse shot dead while passing through
a wood some six miles from here. The
officer in one of his calls was Saluted with
dipper of hot water, also. Prompt ac-
tion followed, for in less than an hour
twenty men armed to the teeth" start
ed for the place. Result, the arrest OF
two or three, the names of eight or ten
pledged to resist the draft, and Il general
abandonment of the idea of resistance
The evening before, at Spencer, some tii-
teen miles distant, two prominent Union
men were severely beaten by copper.
heads devoted to the Constitution "as it
was"