Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-07-17
THE DRAFT.

| THE DRAFT.
| Drafting has already commenced in sever.
al Of the eastern States, and without doubt
the conscription will be enforced in this State
within the next two weeks. The number Of
men required under this call is sOOooo, but
about 100000 will be drawn to provide for
exemptions and combinations. The mum.
Der apportioncd to Iowa is 1890 The sew.
eral Provost Marshals Of the State have al.
ready received the arms, clothing and equip
ments for the use of the drafted men, and
the men drawn will probably be sent at once
to the field In speaking Of this question
the Chicago Journal says: ...
The Government is manifestly in earnest
with the draft. 1t must be and will be en-
forced at once. 1t is a sharp and sweeping
military necessity, The tattered old regi-
ments must be filled up. Fill them, and
there is certainty that the military power
Of the Confederates can be speedily and
thoroughly broken. Without a draft, we
have not men enough to do the work de
handed. We will not have . very heavy
draft in the Northwest, as all our States
have full quotas under all the calls thus far
made Except for sixty-6ay troops) in the
field, and we have no nine months and two
years regiments to run home on the eve of
battles.
All those liable to the draft will be inter.
ested in the following order issued by the
Provost Marshal General on the 3Oth of
June, from the War Department at Wash.
ington: .....
l. Section 13 of the act approved March
3, 1868, For enrolling and calling out the
national forces, and for other purposes" is
as follows:
Sec l3. And be it further enacted, That
any person drafted, and not found to appear
as aforesaid, may, on or before the day fixed
for his appearance, furnish an acceptable sub
stitute to take his place in the draft; or he
may pay TO such persons as the Secretary Of
War may determine, for the procuration Of
such substitute, which sum shall be fixed
at uniform rate by General Order made
at the time Of ordering draft for any State
or Territory and thereupon such person
so ordering substitute, or paying the mon
ey, shall be discharged from further liability
under that draft. Any person failing to re-
port after due service of notice, as herein
prescribed, without furnishing substitute,
or paying the required sum therefore. shall
be deemed descrter, shall be arrested by
the Provost Marshal, and sent to the nearest
military post for trial by Court Martial, un-
less, upon proper showing that he is not
liable to do military duty, the Board Of En-
rollment shall relieve him from the draft.
1t is hereby announced that the amount to
be paid in accordance with the foregoing
section Of the enrolment act, by any person
who may be drafted, in order to secure ex-
emption from service, has been fixed by the
Secretary of War at $500.
II. The Commissioner of Internal revenue
in each Congressional District has been au-
thor lied by the Secretary Of war, and direct
ed by the Secretary Of the IF, asury to re.
ceive from drafted persons, who desire to
pay it for the purpose of exemption, the
money above specified. On receipt Of this
sum, the Collector Of Internal Revenue shall
give the drafted person paying it duplicate
receipts. One copy Of these receipts shall
be delivered to the Board of Enrolment on
or before the day the drafted person is re-
quired to report for duty, and when so de:
livered to the Board the drafted person shall
be furnished by the Board with certificate
Va u, ASSSuidtlo1iN Z W.
vost- Marshal Generals Bureau" stating that
the person is discharged from further liability
under that draft by reason Of having paid the
sumo of $500.
III, The Provost. Marshal shall make out
within the first Monday Of every week an
abstract Of persons to whom exemptions
from military service shall have been granted
by the Board during the week previous
." Form Al: ;" All receipts or certificates of
of deposite delivered to the Board by prisons
claiming exemption on account of having
paid the required sum Of money shall accom-.
pany the abstract.
A CoPPERHEAD MoB.-At the hour OF 70
O'Clock on Monday night, some one hundred
and fifty Copperhcads of Dubuque, armed
with revolvers and bowie. knives, seized upon
some six contrabands, who had come across
the river from Dunleith that afternoon, and
led them to the Levce. Placing them in a
skiff they were set adrift, whilst the base
crowd amused themselves at firing their re-
volvers at the negroes, who were thus at the