The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-02-20

IL sai1 ssztd asitnf In not liable to the draft;
tie Aefson furnishing him to be exempt
ron x2m during the time for which.
Ssabsastute ID met liable 30 draft, not ex-I
ceAdina The S3lne for which he il drafted;
and y Maeh &abssifnte d liable 10 draft
the lri1ishfng him shall be sub
3set 10 sdrazk alling hasure quotas. Any
afatted 1fscas paying communication OF
$500, shAIi Be feliered from draft during
tho time Cor which hewas drafted, unless
tns narass placed In the box aEs sooner
gexhaastsds in which case his name shall
be returned % the wheel. Members of
religious denenainatious conscientously
opposed to bearing arms, shall, when
drafted, be assigned the duty of hospitals
or pAs 800, khe nasaey 10 be applied for
the bene6t OF sick and wounded soldiers.
Mo persons are entitled to the benefits of
this SEXTON unless the declaration of
GceAseiahtious scruples is supported by
satisfactory evidence that his department.
Is uniformly consistent with such decia-
ration. -. -. .=.
.ss5 Mariners and seamen drafted have q
right TO enlist into the navy within eight
DAYS after tho notification of being draft
The following persons are exempted
from draft
80 Such rs are physically or mentally un-
1T for service; all persons actually in the
military or naval service of the United
States al the time of draft, and all per
sons who have served in the military or
naYal service two years during the pres
: ent war and honorably discharged there
from: all other exemptions confined to
10 nf
and United States Judges.
a. The bill also provides for the enroll
ment of all able bodied males Of African
descent.
NkE ToRK, Feb. 13.-The proposition
to amend che Constitution as reported by
the Senate Judiciary Committee yester-
days, Is follows:
- Resolved by Congress, two-thirds of
both Houses cencurring, that the follow
ing article be proposed to the Legisla-
lures Of the several States, as an amend
ment to the Constitution of the United
States, which, when ratified by three
as part of the Constitution.
Art. Is, Sec. !. Neither slavery nor in
voluntary .seryitude, except as punish
been duly convicted, shall exist within
the United States or any place subject to
their jurisdiction.
Seq, Congress shall have power to
enforce this article by appropriate legis-
Iation. ; -..s... ..s ..@
New. YoRK, Feb. 13-The steamer Full
ton from Port Royal 9th, Charleston Bar
10th, has arrived.
A blockade runner grounded during
the fog on the 7th, and was destroyed by
our feet batteries.
The Charleston Harbor expedition left
Port Royal on the Jth, under Gen. Sey-
mour, consisting of three brigades and
one light battery, landed at Jacksonville
Florida, without any casualties. 1t is re-
ported that the expedition will push on
to Tallahassee.
Gilmore and staff sailed on the eighth
for Port Royal on the same expedition.
The British war steamer. Petrol, with
dispatches for the rebel Secretary of
State arrived off Charleston Bar on the
5th, and requested permission to commu-
nicate with the British Consul at Savau-
nah. which Dupont refused:
The Savannah Republican gives gloomy
accounts of the rebel affairs.
It is stated that only one month sup
ply Of subsistence was in possession Of the
:commissary. department..
Admiral Dahlgren with the Pawnee,
Water Witch and Wachusetts had sailed
for St. Johns Florida.
NV York, 18th. Times Hilton Head
lettersaysi
The rebel blockade runner Merrimack
off Charleston. had a cargo of iron plates
and other metal for the construction of
iron ciads. She carried four guns. The
rebels were unable to remove any cargo
in consequence of heavy file from our
guns,
A refugee from Savannah states that
Beauregard' g headquarters removed there
in anticipation Of an attack.
The rebels had hundred and fifty tor
pedoes float down the Savanna river.
Eight thousand troops are quartered
around the city.
The Georgia regiments have already
mutinied in consequence of the shortness
supplies.
Two blockade runners are at Savannah
watching an opportunityto pass our gun
boats.
BALTIMORE, ia passenger train on
the Baltimore & Ohio road was way laid
by guerrillas two miles west Of Martins
burg, yesterday morning. The train was
thrown from the track and the passcn
gers robbed of forty or fifty, watches and
forty thousand dollass.~-No resistance
was offered. The robbers were dressed
in Federal uniform and made off with the-i
booty 80 soon as secured. but didn't at
tempt to destroy the mails or cars. Cav
airy has been sent in pursuit.
..sWAsHIxcToS, Feb, lsth.-speeial to the
Post says:
The Senate Military Committee voted
this morning to non-concur in the House
enrolment bill. This will send the bill
back to the House for the committee on
conference.
The House Committee on Views andf
heans'wifl report the following: 80 1
Resolved, That the Secretary of the
Treasury be and hereby is authorized to