The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-10-29


Congressional District in this county,
is about eleven and a half .."
1t can therefore be seen that this
mere squad of men could easily be Sc
cured by volunteering in each district.
The Government offers to every sound
volunteer bounty of 1902, and, in
cases where the volunteer hasscrved in
any Of our armies for term not less
than nine months, he receives an ad-
ditional 800, making S4O2 in all. ?.
The recent call Of the President for
100000 volunteers Of which number
Ohio must furnish her quota, in addi-
ton to the present deficiency Of 5000,
and the fact that the provision to pay
raw volunteers a Government bounty
of 1902 expires December !, or in
about six weeks, is proof enough that
it is advisable to encourage volunteer
ing in every way, and with all posi-
BILE haste. The bounties now paid
make the service pocuniarily attractive
to any man who receives a salary of
less than ten dollars per week. In the
army he receives his food and clothing,
and his pay in such installments as to
induce him to save it. There is no rea-
son why private, who has no claim
on his wages, and who volunteers at
the present time should not come out
5000 or 500 ahead, after deducting
three dollars per month for tobacco,
stationery and "other refreshments.
THE BOUNTY TO RAW VOLUNTEERS
Is, as we have said, S3O2, paid in the
following installments: S27 on being
mustered into the service; $40 two
months after said muster; $40 six
months after said muster; $40 each at
the end Of one year, eighteen months,
two years, two years and a half, and
the balance at the expiration Of ser
vice. One months pay is also ad-
vaneed at the muster, making total
of $40, paid to the recruit as soon as
he is mustered
The Provost Marshals, it will be re-
membered, are authorized to receive
volunteers. Applicants are examined
every morning, at II 4. NJ, and il
passed sent to Columbus for muster.
The recruit has the privilege of Sc
lecting any regiment in the service fol
his fulure military career. This right
is plainly Of great advantage to the
volunteer, who can enter the service
among the veterans of his acquain.
tance, in whose hands he will doubtles,
graduate much moro speedily and
agreeably than under other circum.
stances.
WHO MUST GET THEIR EXEMPTION PA
PERs BEFORE THE DRAFT.
Parents, who have the privilege o.
selecting one Of their sons for eXemp
ton, in accordance with the provisions
of the Conscription Act, must procure
such exemption papers previous to the
draft, for the obvious reason that, in
asmuch as, in all probability, not moro
than one would be drawn, the parent
would, if permitted to make the cleo
ton after the draft, select for eXemp
ton whichever one was conscripted.-
This, of course, the law does not have
in view. The Board of Enrollmcn
sits cvcry day at each Provost Mar
shal's office, and application for this
species of exemption, but none other
must be made to them before the draft
takes place,
THE BOUNTGES FOR "vErERANs."
Any man who has been in service in
any of the armies in the field for g
period of nine months or more, is en-
titled now, upon volunteering, to S4O2
in installmonts, as set forth in the or
der Of the department relating to this
matter, which we publish below
Those who have served for that length
Of time, and who can pass the surgeon
receive that amount, and, also, have
the privilege Of selecting the regiment
in which they will serve.
Those who are stall in service in the
three years regiments, can, in accord
ance with the order below, commence
a new term of enlistment and receive
$l02 in bounties 1t will also be OBJ
served that all soldiers 50 re-enlisting
are entitled to a speedy furlough oI
thirty days, which is long enough tC
get tired of civil life, if we may be
lieve halfof what we hear from officers
and men on leave Of absence from theil
regiments. ...
! 1t is time that active efforts were be
ing made in the army to re-enlist the
three years regiments, whose terms
expire next summer and fall. They
are among the flower Of our soldicry
and cannot well be spared On any
terms. The Government is willing tc
pay them well for further service, il
greenbacEs as well as gratitude, anC
we think if the proper efforts were be
ing made, the rolls Of the veterans
might be flowing back to Washington
even now. The thirty days they vii
be permitted to spend at home, will be
sufficient to induce thousands Of the re
enlisted veterans to be thankful for re
entering the army; not that they viii
not be gratefully received, but because
they soon yearn for the accustomed
4 excitement of the field. The history
of all armies is the same; and one o
the strongest condolences lies in thu
fact that recruiting is never more brisl
than when one has recently been dis
banded. I ...g. -.
T. We insert the order of the War De
nortment below. after having made al