The weekly Butte record., 1863-09-19
Operations Of the Draft.

Parker, of New Jersey. Of which the following
is al extract:
Every volunteer you will present TO Us with
in thirty days from this date. July 25l, fit and
ready to be mustered into the United States
shall be pro fdnfo an abatement of your quota
of the draft. That quota | can now stale at
6,Io3. No draft for New jersey other than
for the above quota ,o7S3) will be made be
fore an additional draft, common TO all the
States, shall be required and may add, that
If We get well through the present draft, en-
tertaln strong hope that any further one may
never be needed This expression of hope,
however, mast not be construed into prom
lse."
Jersey City and Newark acted By appro
priating a bounty of 5000 for each volunteer,
and other cities and towns in Democratic New
Jersey followed their example.
Concerning the draft in New York, the
Corning Journal says:
"The cars are filed with conscripis on their
way 10 and from Elmira to report themselves
On Tuesday the way train east had four cars
filed with conscripts from Alleghany county"
A white man was accepted at Emira, as
substitute for Benjamin Johnson, coored.
The Daily Poughkeepsian says "a six poun-
der field is in position in Market street, in front
of the Court House, ready to suppress any ri
otous demonstrations that may occur during
the draft, which is sexpected to begin this week
In Pennsylvania case has been presented
to the supreme court for the purpose of secur>
ing decision on the constitutionality of the
conscription. Messrs. Ingersoll, Bidde and
Wharton were for complainant We believe
! hat Judge Cadwallader has decided that the
conscriplon was constitutional.
/ In Bradford county, the draft was suspended
by the robbery of the Marshal's Office All
the books, papers, vouchers, blanks, &c, ap-
/ pertaining and belonging to the draft in that
Congressional district were taken. In the
Cumberland Valley, the rebel invasion suspen-
ded the operation Of enrolment
The Philadelphia papers state that the board
of enrolment, will not be through their bu.i
ness for three months.
At Maiden, Massachusetts,, only out Of 60
consclpis have been accepted.
In the second district of Massachusetts, out
of $50 examinations, 400 were exempted
So numerous are the exempts in Boston,
that the government has sent inspectors to that
city 10 ascertain, if possible, the cause of the
excessive disability prevailing there. But the
exemptions IN Boston are no more, in proper
ton, than they are in dozen other places in
New England.
\ negro con'cript of Boston, wrote to the
Provost Marshal General, asking him the price
demanded to exempt u colored conscript, as
$500 would exempt a white man. but negro
would not be received as his substitute, there
fore colored exemption should be less. lie was
told in reply that all, not otherwise exempt,
must pay $500, or serve.
The Hartford, Connecticut Times makes
the annexed estimate of what the draft will
cost D.:
/ 1T Itrequires about 10000 men to make the
present draft all over he country. Thee cost
the government, in salaries about eight times
the amount paid TO soldiers. Multiply 10000
by eight and We have 24000O-or in other
words the means 10 pay 100000 common SOL
dlers, as long as the army Of enrolling aud
drafting officers, with their assistants, are con-
tiuued in Office In addition to this expense of
carry ing on the draft. The Provost Marshals
have guards" and more than $4,000 invalid
soldiers are distributed over the country to
st1I in prsFn So IL,
able bodied soldiers fit for duty in the field. 1t
is evident that the cost of the draft, With the
Provost Guards, is equal to the pay OF an ar
my OF 100000 men through the present year
at least"
The n. Y. Times supposes the whole mum
Der of men called for under the draft is 4j0,-
600. Judging from the RESULT thus far expe-
/ renced, at least one third of this whole number
and probably more, will secure exemption by
payment of $500 each. This will yield not
far from $4,000 0O0 which makes the con.
scripton law appear more like revenue mea-
sure than to procure soldiers.
While a propeller containing conscripts was
leaving Philadelphia for Washington, enc OF
the substitutes jumped overheard and attempt
ed to swim ashore. Tie guard fred at him
aud finally hit him in the head, when be sank
A correspondent ef the Milwaukee News.
who has been making tour in Wisconsin,
whites
The impending draft" see Is 10 produce no
excitement in any place where have stopped,
but l dud very few who expect to serve even if
drawn They all think they Will escape in
some way, even if they have to 'skeedaddie' to
effect it,"
The Delaware State Journal is officially 10
formed that the number of men required from
Delaware is ,636.
Provost Marshal General Fry continues to
emit frequent decisions from Washington in
regard to the construction of the CONSUMPTION
law. A publication Of the 9th Informs the
Boards Of enrolment that when the names of
men who are already in the miitaay service of
! the United States are drawn. such names shall
f l. IL.