The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1863-08-20
LOCAL NEWS.
new YORK ANN rnR VICINITY.
Drafting In the Sixth District.
SCENES AND INCIDENTS
NAMES OR TIE CONsCRIPTA.

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Pur,uant 10 previous notice, the work of drafting
In the SIXTH District hessn Yesterday morning In the
buildins No Is5 sirth Avenue. At en- early hour
small kno,s ~ pcrsous assembled to tait about the
drs and sass At the windows Of the building ~hers
Il y. to take p.scc. soon after. Conpsnies q and q
Of the 3,th Ma.,sohu,etu regiment marched into tho
building snd TOOK their quarters on the third and
fourth auors. Atcr Captain Fan and his ssastAaA
bad vcd. tho reporters Of the city journals we're
assigned their plseee at . long table prepared fos
them, in the large room the second floor. Tho
room hsd been divided BY wooden railing, behind
which vn tho platform and paraphernais foe the
drsvins win suitable table, which to count the
clips and prepare the pre- ininaries, About ten o'clock
the public Ion Of the denseiy crowded
vi ANXIOUS spectators, while inside the railing ves
Csptsin fsrr. Provo't Msnhsi Of the District Mr..
Charles Lamont, Ccmmiss ousr: Dr. Po.eii, surgson:
Richard Irhsm and ". ". Waterbury, Esqs, Super
iu,sndents Of Enrolment, With other government
and city of,eislA drawn thi.her either BY
business Or curiosity. AZ . quarter past ten
ocoeh. CAPTAIN Fan briefly announced that the dram
would then commences In his district statins that the
nsmes would b drawn BY hr. Conklins B'shop.s
bind man. to shom Capt. Fan then sdministered
the oath OF allessp Commissioner Lamont sert
read the PROCLAMATION Of the President authoriEinS
the drsf, &o, announcing the quota - follovs 9th
Ward, LOO: 18th Ward, Ts4. 10Th Ward, i.lSl.
Thee nrires include the additional 30 psr cent. al
ic~ ance for exemption Seventy. seven hundred snd
eight names written upon cards, rolled up and bound
With ind 10 rubber bands thea brought forward,
put on the table, and counted into passbosrd boIes,
and afers ards poured into the sh.si BY Assistant
Provost har,hai w. L. stephens, and an assistant
This operation wss suprrintendsd by Alderman Chipp
and Mesus. J. W. French, Daniel French and J. W.
Booh An hour vas occupied in counting the siips
and then the blind man took oh his ooat rolled up
his sleeves learned nov opep the door a the vhse
and vss then unnecessary preesution.
- NJ. Bishop has been hnovn q . blind man 70
many resdeuts OF the district for the past Eve ysArs
Mr. Lamont then announced every preliminary CON-
plst. and gave orders for the turning Of the Wheel
Amid profound silence the vhee mAde 'vo OF .nree
revolutions, and then the phnd man dfev 'o''h 'ns
NM namc'vh'eh ne nanaeo 20 nj. L'sno snno"n'e =.
ths' bmos"" oi NO ,'o 0nsr'Ss "', "..
tho honot OF o"'ns W" n'" Oo"sow IN '"' ''.''
District. Atufs' o. sppNsass "es'oo 'n's .n"'u"eo-
men' Ano'het 'ufh o' w" snso" sn"As, nsM'
hahaeo 70 MT IAmon'' 'ssa s"a '0e"'es"' ~. Wv
ara" pfoeesded until nVc oe'oe.' m.s"u".e " :.
in'efm"''on OF zen minutes on .ns MN "unaI.u
sno'nef reoess " 'he h'n'n noaai n:, 'a'
eievsn nuhdre" nam" 'o' sns '.n -. "o.
drvn' hr. Lamont ssVe nos'ee 'nss 'ns a's" .o'
the o'nef "Aos IN '"o p's"'e. .o"'a so"-""
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