, 1864-12-05
the DRAFT.

I'LL up the vacancies In the Union armies, and
many portions Of the country preparations are b
inr made in anticipation OF that ca1l. 1t IL not In
urobabIe that such cali will be made; more me
will be wanted In the spring unless the rebels CAV
l4n dfshcartened before that time-this Is not 4
irnposnbflity, bat It will by no means do to calcs
iatc on. It behooyes us to make ready to bear on
share 81 the burden, which 10 all probabiiis
Ec ahai. b ealled k nPoD TO shoulder t Is mus p
noSing, aad 50 xeEy 1eeensiy Chicago w hslr
Il is true that we have started movement here
within few days hare appointed Committee, 9
boan q one de. {.
cruit credited to Cook county. and have paesed Al
ordinance making It an onense against mnnicipa
this county Bal the people are not moving. III
| are doing nothing. Tho money Is not forthcoming
wherewfth TO pay bount,es, and II the COMMITTEES 4
should be. Men can he procured much more cas-
ily now Than in the summer. The suspension o.
IN mny 1 o
! forward to swci! the ranla Of the army Il Ne 90
& 5o @ hq %f az y ae Tn sna The
shall look back with regret on the present ne
elected goIdcn opportunity, and and cause to be.
summer Is epdcd, and am not saved"
The Board Of Supervisors meets the coming
Week; TO their careful consideration we commit
the subject Let some organized plan Of action be
snbdistricts may not be nnled when aDotheT ca
comes. And even II It should not come tie men ,
that every man we send into the field shortens. by
bic aid the labors Of the others who have zone BE-
lore, and hastens the rebe1lion's overthrow. We
hsse already done a great deal, bat not enough.
We yet owe something to the coycrnnent II IA
10 ioE US t9 say a. whether NC will the debt prompt
additional and the cosle OF collection wil be- in.
GUIDED IN the amount. Gentlemen of the Board Of
supervisors no more important subject Will de-
mant yonr attention than that OF maintaining the
power. 1Nfkf'~1s
In accordance with instructions recently issaea
1som Mos.a 1ne Mas Dcpartment the various Provost
enrolment lists Their districts, In fact out
ne" M on9s: froSost Marshal James is thus engaged
On On ne lists Of Cock county. They are authorized
liable to military duty. and are directed to insert
the names Of ali thofe who in their Judgment art
abie: Me haze no disposition to and fault with
tts duty in the past; we believe they hare
acted from pure motives, but We do believe that
II possible 70 make much more satisfactory en-
fore been made, and We hope that the new enroll
ment will exhibit decided improvement
ne manifest incorrcctness Of our last list Is
Office. returned forty thousand mca as Liable to
dtan IN this county, and that number was assessed
and charged. when at the recent Presidential cleo
voter in FIVE hundred failed to cset bis ballot and
hundreds Of votes we're polled Illegally by the im-
ported huttesnuts, there were barely thifty-thrcc
thousand ;hn votss roled It Is absurd t. suppose
was anything like that amount. The military class
comprises only ablc-hodied citizens between the
a,es Of twenty and foEty-se, while the voting list
The lanc. the halt, the blind al} but the bsd-sde
dcn- lftncl1des cEipples, wounded and DISCHARGED
soldiers, and many other classes Of cxempts, 80
included only those liahle to military duty shond
not exceed. seycnty-tive or eighty per cent OF The
popular vote. In other words Instead Of FORTY thou-
sand persons In Cook comfy liable to serve, there
arc not more than twenty live to twenty-seyeu
thousand here Whose names shopld be put into the
wheel from which the drafted men are determined,
Il Il 1s 1oy worse than folly, to nut down the names
bic ~ draft. ncccssitattng expense In the process
causing an unfair assignment ot quotas, and rolln:
an 1.5, nndnc burden uIon the shoulders Of those
stood CHARGED on the books Of the War Depart
1ncnt will not less than thirty per cent mare
thsn we really possessed, and were called upon By
the enrolment had been correctly takcu, shorn Of
u superoufties. the expense Of eight hundred
.hou.and to million Of lollars entitled IN meet
tend that the two thousand soldiers tAcr, furnish
Cd BY US, were really donation from Cook county
to tfo.t the &C Go'er9msnt rae,a W. did MT owe
TO MD the Government We do not say
that she has done any too xauch, or that she should
not 60 more, Int We do claim fir reckoning and
credit Tor what We do. The radical defect OF the
last enrolment was that II Included al foreigners
Of whom We have much larger proportion than
my my other Part Of the West pFebably much more
York. We hare here thousands Of men drawn
here By the requirements Of made, who, although
rnany od them ought 70 be citizens; set they ne
not and consequently not amenable to SERVICE
But AL these people we're enrolled, and hundreds
9! others single glance at whom wonld show
TINT thongh entitled to vote they were NOT capable
ported ofmen being enrolled who were already in
the army. scores were entered twice, several dead
men turned up as alive; and in one Or two cases
open se the imputaion Of wishing 70 rob the grave
Much of Ills was due to the exceedingly loose
nH1ner in which the deputy enrolling officers went
70 Wof1 Manr OF them seemed disposed 10 think
inst al that was needed was that they shou1d
take down their thirty to forty names per day.
lafor as possible. Ii nay be said that the respon-
elbitty Of this lay at the ccntral Office where they
received their ordera md the responsibility there
ton, but that the fault Ias somewhere no one Wjii
dispute md that the Of this complaint should
901 asP BE- no ens E al hat
living at the hotels al night md leaving the CITY
next morning. in fine. that universal registry Of
pereons nantket1y not liable, from a1iepaee dis
ease, tmbccility, non-residcncc, and tue numerous
other causes OF exemption, must NOT be repeated
One dote Of such ulcdicancnt is enough.
euaet insuuctons to bis deputies, that III In sthc
present canvass Of the city they shall enter no
en III Is s s aese hsF s s i no !s5aa 5
make discrimination In their cnfries markinr ali
doubtful e eases, which may be inquired into BY
HnstWorahE parties, to the end that our lists NAV
tremendously mn
they have held till now. We want tbat onr next
quota may be bascd on correct enrolment, md
up deficiencies not made good by the first At the
recent examinations, two-thfrds at least OF thosc
examined we're exempted On various pleas. We
Dofsae TO s n a. o It Is not
ehould be our best endeayor to come rs nearly In
1t as ne circumstances Of the case will admit.
d!atted mcn upon eyery district OF The United
States 1t docs not aim ar The causing Of special
hardship or embarrassment in any case. We wish
eqaabe ecaC Sa, ~ eFar
ton to the rule Of resident citizenship. Her
hosts Of foreigners arc not met with In other
eded and I'd Is ofheT cea yE9 W ass not tS
great highway Of travel and its great resting
place We only ask that We be notheid to personal
o. he ar S wsx ho e IS .4
willing, as We have been in the past to give ofthat
abundance which their visit brings, but unless
uey ~ Aelu WIN ub 70 Personal Service We TO not
While the representatives Of the Government
@ here have dnty 70 perform, the people them
selves hare ~ an Imperative call. Let rs to work.
Let not the hundreds Of men nov willing to enter
the army be allowed TO remain At home In the nb-
sence OF any tnducemcnt to 60, or be run OF to
ot1ei plaees lice ,a,S tlr9nsh our suplneness Let the
up another strong Union majority Of men who will
vote with their bayonets for the maintenance Of
the Onion.
MEssRs. A. D. I1TswoETE 4 Co.-Tu1R New
sToREs.-For the past few years our business cen
'er has been changing, and expanding soutAward,
ollowfng the permanent heart Of our city estab-
ished in the Post Office and Custom House. Each
cason has seen eolid md substantial Improve |
nents south Of Lake street, and in this respect
omplete transformation has been effected In D.ar-
'orn streets within block two Of their point Of
'pera House. Tie elegant. structures Of The new
Iuartera; some o. our Oldest md best eetabiisbed
inns. Among othcrs arc Mrssrz- 4 D. TItsworth-
@ sG5 sse
Ia will he seen elsewhere, remnyed from Lake
g ~ s. asa Me
Block, thc whole making one noble sa!esroo!n.
metropolitan in character md finish. and almis-
prosperous house, especially in the extension they
propose Of adding the department Of Teady-madc
clothing 10 their large run Of custom work. They
md the skill for rendering the same into garments
Of all styles while they will add thereto what the
rcady-made clothing, which they intend shall
naintain and extend the reputation Of the house,
a,7cady well secured In its late almost exclusive
line. They arc eute1prising, have been descrvedly
successful, mud in tefr new premises Will better
han ever sustain the prominent relations accorded
10 them In our city trade.
INDICTED ToR MUKDEn.-1n the Circuit Court
IN Saturday, four Of the prisoners Mt present con.