The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-08-15

T1Ght, SuTNTV,
of dealing with this question. to know that depend
cnce upon negro recruits even III the matter OF fl-
ling up the enrolment lists, would prove a delusion.
Now, the simple fact Is that our aIlnies have not yet
got at more than the Of the black fighting ma
terial of the South Aud, even were that material
within the reach OF recruiting oficers what propor
ton of it could be turned to account before the 9Th
of September
The truth Ia. needless waste of time has been in
dulgcd in There is no reason why active recruiting
should not have gone all summer Until the law
was passed needlessly repeating the communication
clause, bounes of three hundred dollars would have
secured more men in a day than can now be had for
double the amount in month. And what is the
consequence Our quota will not only not be filed
in anticipation Of the draft but there barely remains
time to revise the enrolment, which promises
to do positive injustice 10 the city of New York.
Let those who doubt this turn 20 the communication
which we publish this morning from the chairman OF
the county volunteer committee, addressed 10 the
Provost ost-Marshal-0eneral. Under the call of 0eto-
Der T. 1863 for five hundred thousand men, the
quota OF New Yo,k was barely sixteen thousand
Under the present call for five hundred Thousand
the quota of New York rises to twenty three thou
sand three hundred and seventy full third mote
than it nine months ago. what movement OF
the population justihes this astounding difference
During the interval We have sent over thity thou
sand to the war. And to the extent OF fuiiy half
that number population liable to the draft must
have decreased.
What is demanded here, is that New York, which
has already supplied oo0 three years men for the
given millions in bounties Tor volunteers,
and nearly eleven millions more Ill voluntary con-
tributions to the national cause, should have her
just quota assigned that there be no excuse left
Tor the disloyal to complain; that the generous
spirit in which our citizens have giselitheir time
and their to the public service shall not be
Gucnched aid 30 that, when the draft does come,
it shall bear alike upon every section OF the COM
muInty.
THE ExcHANeED YANKEE PRISONERS FROM CHARLES
The Yankee officers exchanged at Charleston have
arrived III New York In Charleston harbor they
were dined by Maior-GeneIals Daniel Sicklcs and
Foster, and Admiral Dshlsren, to compensate them
for the brutal treatment they had undergone at
Charleston some OF which il thus trathtulty de-
scribe by Morris Island correspondent of the New
York Times:
In return for this kind treatment, what have our
soldiers III their hands been subjected to I, q ma
orty of the fifty who exchanged yesterday have
been confined for months and months in prisons from
which, account Of the initsman treatment they
received, they never expected to leave aliSe. On
the way to the Charleston prison, the same fiity
officers were insultcd, mltreated and robbed The
despieabie ends did not spare tho coat buttons
of our officers, and when General Seymour was asleep
they actually cut from his coat all but four buttons
fof those buttons the rebels received hve dollars
each their The officers state that, dll-
ring the first few days OF their stay in Charleston
they subjected to the most barbarous treatment
GOVERNOR CURrIS'5 MESSAGE TO THE PENNSYLVANIA
LEGISLATURE.
The extra session Of the PENNSYLVANIA Legislature
met on the 9th instant.
Governor Curtin, III his message, calls upon the
Legislature take action for the defence OF the
State. He speaks of the support rendered by Penn
sylyania to the National Government, and says the
State has fulfilled all her obligations. Pennsylva.
MIA has right to be defended by the national iorce
part of the common country.
After ailuing the al invasionS Of the STATE
by the rebels, he asks: "How could agricultural
people, i'll an open country, be expected to rise sud
denly and beat back hostile forces which had de
feitei the organized veteran armies 81 the Hoyern'
ment -
lie adds: 1T Is Of course, expected that the M
habitauts Of invaded country will dc what Is II
their power TO resist the invaders, aid the facts vii
show think, that the people OF the invaded eoun
ties have not failed in their duty"
He severely condemns the gibcs and sneers anf
SCOTS wiicl, have been thrown upon the people 0
Pennsylvania by the newspapers and citizens o
other States He quotes a letter addressed by him
together with Governor i'fiidford, of Maryland, t
President Lincoln, asking that recruits raised b,
the state shall be credited to the quotas on the has
call made, and be armed, equipped and supplied a
other volunteers in the service.