Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-10-20

special meeting q the lard Of So held
Hon VIM. N. Tseed in the chair '-0
The Committee Volunteering presented the following
reports, viz:
THE LAST GALL OF tbs PRESIDENT FOR MEN.
TIE QUOTA Nzw Y~RK COUNTY
BOARD sUPERvIsoRs,
ONCE No. z, City Hall, :
NEW YORK, Sept IT, 1894
At meeting Of the Board Supervisors held this day,
the following report of the Committee was
submitted by Supervisor Bune; whereupon it
Ordered, That said report be accepted and published in
Jos. B. You've, Clerk.
The Committee on Volunteering would respectfully
RsPoRT:
Gan VIM. HAYS :. General Of .bi. district. 70
the effect that the quota of the COUNT OF New York is
This statement hasten to lay before your honorable
body that through you may BE- gnhi', aanoeacsd
in obtaining this reault in Of preparation, and
will be submitted to your honorable body at the earliest
moment.
In the meantime it seems proper to state the quota
under the last call OF the President for Eve hum
dred thons&nd $500 ,Ce0) men swenty.three
Thousand one hundred and forty %, l4o
.nst which Wa are entitled to be credited with a
surplus uLd r the previous call of eleven hundred
Leaving baaucs to be raise under the Last cali Of
twenty-five Thousand and three % OO3
The whole number of volunteers in the army
and navy, and re-.nlIsted men in the army,
paid the CoaD.y Bounty by your Con nit
tee uuder the cal, has been seven hundred
nd hjrtV throe
There have been allowed credits 90 account 100
OF naval enistments from April Is. 1851 te
Aprii 4 1854 none of whom received the
County Bounty, niueteen thousand four hum
dred and seventyse7eD 10 ATT
There credited substitutes in antic-
pstisen Ct ths d5t and T re- eDliated neD'
one thousand eight hundred aud twenty-one 1921
Leaving surplus al this date over and 6bote
all the demands up to this time, of twenty
Tas result hes been achieved at an expn.e Of sb;os
four hundred thGusand L400 000 dollars Of which
two two hundred and fifty thousand l2ooooO dollars has
been psid III bounei,s
TIE number hundred and thirty three 73s) i.
navy the amount of bounty offered.
Had We been obliged to obtain tho full number called
for bS W. fell assured hst hot less than
thousand Olo) dollars bounty per would have been
required of the credits this call twenty thousand
your committee, without expenditure of one dollar in
countless and We belive to be exsggeraon say
that thus saved to the county the
of over tWenty.one millions of dollars.
Comment upon This point s unnecessary Useless other
of your committee to continue enlist anticipation of
any urtneI call such men may cr for the Government
country since il frat commenced to pay bountes.
All Of which isresrectuly submitted. Dated New York,
EL1JAH F. PURDY,
WIN. B. STEWART,
VIM h. TwyED,
Epocisl Committee Cd Volunteering.
Upon the above report tee New York News makes the
| follow ing remarks:
CoNsCR1PTIoN AND VOLUNTEERING.
The Boazd of Supervisors have the draft
They have published the state of tbs debts
OF EUman life in York in with Abra.
ham Lincoln. The total number of contributed under
the lash Of the Call for five bund Thousand
appears exceed t" sDty five hundred and fifty four In
the interval between tbs last notice of nscrption
| and that immediately preceedirg-abont five mouha
| 'calp' that the last lunb"r of men enlisted bu.
s
at aVease of less than two huadred and fifty per
month.
This city may Re reasonably supposed to have
p!ished all times uuc relatively Tor the recruitment
of the army any other of the country. The greater
wealth aggregated here be fairly supposed to have
in the land The market has we
therefore presume, been good here where An
emporium of European emigraton and centre for that
class of population which may be supposed subjee
the temptations of bounties there ia
concluding that New York must have Contributed during
the period of the late draft proportion above
age Assume however, that she has emily performed the
ToIk to the letter of her exact proportion. million
people send thus to the field at the standard recruiting
throughout the country but $500 under the last
- call - and therefore may it be concluded that that
c8 for $40 QUO men has produced from you1 teeripg
gross result OF additions to the army to the amount of bat
$4,000 men,
official report set down sc net profit, If reEemb
correctly fortyve thousand The exhaustion tina.
since naeria for )diery has Of
reduced the 6dSts OF draft now and therefore
conclude very safely that the present cali be car
red the proceeds in recruits will average many.
Volunteering tn it's highest result
ton Of boun and CONSUMPTION though out
vigorously as in October, 1852 will not have added
troops in the field oue hundred thousand
The renloroements resulting from the last {" call will
certainly not i'll the losses that have taken place
the expiration of terms Of service. The sluggish
pelvisor to this city, may be regarded merely nominal
Anu. has. all hands have to concuds
mics il he field, they are at last about to be by
alsUn 2hat this Is accepted in ofica! quarters il
c,earIy admitted in tbs confession just made by Mr.
dispatch to the effect that CONSUMPTION produces
little OF no nen.