Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-07-15

La Truite and Cassidy. Jane English IA
nous company and the Partisan Troute 81;
Denis, the only rivals to the Ravel trou le, ana
who have only been in this country Ior snort
time, will make their first appearance IN IS eve
ming. The entertainment Will consist OF ballet
singing, dancing, tableaux, tight rope perlorm-
ances, vaulting, somersaultlng, &c. most
delightful midsummer entertainment Is thus
offered.
CANTERBURY continues to be wonderfully
attractive, and during this evening an enter
tanment OF song, dance and Ethiopian &c CEN
tricity will be given. The drama, !" Fort nnes
of War" and the laughable burletta, s.The
French Dancing Master" will both be per-
formed also; and during the rening an exhi.
bition of the wonderful effects II laughing gas
will be given.
TIE FREsHET-Hs Damage Resumption of
TrGreJ.-The freshet on Monday was the great
est ever known along the line of the Washing
ton Branch Railroad, and did much damage to
the crops, the roads and the bridges and Gull
yerts, and also washed away several culyerts
on the Annapolis Railroad, blockadipg the
engines and cars near the Junction, and several
along the line Of the Washington road The
trains from Baltimore got ont as far as Hanover
switch on Monday, and after remaining several
hours Were obliged to put back, and the trains
from this city got few miles beyond Bladens-
burg, and had TO put back. The fine mill dana
OF Chas. a. Gambrill, on the Patapsco near
the Relay House, was carried away early on
Monday morning, and Hooded the railroad,
delaying the Frederick train several hours. A
small but strong culyert near Hanover switch
was also carried away, with some of the track,
but a number of workmen were set to work,
and the job was completed on Monday night.
At Jesup's Cut the water overfowed the track
for several miles, the water sweeping down
furiously towards the Junction, bearing away
the railroad platform and carrying it several
hundred yards distant.
BY far the greatest loss to the railroad COM
pany is the destruction OF the splendid stone
bridge over the Big Patuxent, at Laurel, which
was washed away about7 o'clock on Monday
morning. The water here commenced to rise
about b O'Clock in the morning, and rose fifteen
feet in one hour when the bridge was washed
away. AT the time it went off there Were some
thirty soldiers and citizens it, looking at
the turbulent waters, W hich had spread over
the roads IN that vicinity TO the depth of four
or five feet: but all of them, with the exception
OF jeremiah Reed of company Il, 109th n. Y,
VINO was. II IS supposed, caught among the
stone, succeeded in making their escape The
block house at the north end OF the bridge was
carried of, but fortunately those who were III
II got out safely.
The railroad at Paint Branch, beyond Bla-
densburg, was oyerfiowed, and the under
pinnlng of the track and culyert washed away,
the gravel and stone III some places being car
RED distance OF several hdndred yards. The
officers OF the railroad company Immediately
put force OF hands al work at Laurel, and
yesterday they were getting the timbers ready
10 put in position; and near Bladensburg a
large number of colored laborers were en-
time it is thought that the trains will be able
10 run as regularly ever.
Yesterday the passengers of these trains
reached mere, those leaving Baltimore at eight
reaching here at 2k O'Clock, and those at 10 at
o'clock, aad another train arriving at 9I1
o'clock the passengers having to leave one
train beyond Paint Branch and walk over the
turnpike bridge. which, although wooden
structure, was not carried Oft, connecting with
trains in charge OF Messrs. Koontz and Ed
monds, the agents in this city, and the con-
ductors.
The loss to the farmers cannot be estimated
all of them being sufferers 10 some extent, and
some of them having nearly all their crops
swept away. Some stock was drowned, and
IN one case one entire field of corn was covered
with sand from the hills.
z. S.-The rains OF yesterday afternoon,
which was quite heavy beyond Bladensburg
caused several Of the streams 10 raise, and the
track at PANT Branch, about seven miles out,
which was beng repaired, was washed con-
slderabiy again. A train containing troops
passed over this work about 94 O'Clock last
night, but hardly had 1t passed when the whole
structure gave way, and was carried off. Col.
McCallum, superintendent OF military rail-
roads, has at this place large number OF work
men, and will no doubt soon have the track
again i'll running order.
The track at White Oak Bottom, a few miles
beyond Belts vile, was also damaged last night,
but We believe that the troop train before men
toned passed over il, and transferred its pas
Sengers at Laurel
The mails arrived last night about OK o'clock,
y
There may BE- some delay in the travel for
several days 10 come, but the repairs will be
mace as speedily as possible. The officers of
the road, both IN this city and Baltimore, are
doing all in their power to have the road speed
lily put IL order.
THE ENROLMENT IN THE DISTRICT-The
Board Of Enrolment for this City and District,
consisting OF Captain Scheetz, Provost Mar
shall; Hon. Hugh J. Anderson, Ex-Governor of
a piGSIO Tlr Epa bar Of
city, Examining Surgeon, have had the enroll
ing officers industriously at work, and the lat
ter VIII conclude their labors before the close
OF the present week. The number enrolled
VIII reach between $1,000 and 2O,UJO.
The District will probably be required to
furnish its quota soon after the completion Of
the enrolment.
1t is understood that no certificate of exemp-
ton will be granted until alter the applicant
shall have been drafted.
The enrolling officers are required to take
the names OF all persons under Tie age of forty
five, neither liable 10 Consumption or not, ex-
cept IT. cases Of obvious disability, such as the
loss OF an arm, the like. Fifty per cent will
BE- added 10 the actual number needed when
the draft takes place, III order TO cover the
lumber OF drafted men who viii be exempted
from one cause 10 another by the Board. The
iIrst call viii include al single men between
the ages OF twenty aud forty five years, and
all married men between the ages Of twenty
and thIrty-fye.
SdpIoiIA koSutetLs was iOIlAtE.N All tttLlJ
General on General McCalrs StaH.
The following explanatory circular has Just
been promulged by Provost Marshal General
Fry:
WAR DEPARTMENT, PROVOST MARSHAL
GENERALS OFFICE, WAsnIEGToS, ID. c.,
july II, lo63-CtrcUtcr No. ito answer in
quiries made TO this office il Is announced:
I. Amy drafted person paving three hundred
dollars, under section l3 OF the Enrolment act,
- thereby exempt from further liability under
that draft, bnt not from any subsequent draft.
g. Any drafted person furnishing an accept
able substitute is exempt frem military service
tor the period Tor which said subs titute is mus
tered into the service.
3. A substitute, once mustered into the
vice, cannot he drafted while in service.
a. A drafted man cannot pay comm utation
money, or prescst 4 substi. ute, after he has
ported himself TO the Board Of Enrolment for
examination.
5. Men who, on the Sd Of March, 1863, were
il the military service OF the United States, as
substitutes, under the draft OF 1862, and whose
terms OF service have since expired, are not
liable TO the present draft; but the persons fog
whom they were substitutes are liable TO draft
the same az though they had not been drafted
and furnished substitutes under the draft of
last year.
g. In serving the notice as required by Circu-
Tar No. a., from this Office, TcdSoanbte tune to