Nebraska advertiser., 1864-02-11

An Executive order, published to-day.
fixes The long-delayed draft for the 10Th
of March. Il also carries the number
for which the drawing will be mace from
three hundred thousand men, which was
the number called for last October, upto
half a million. Agains, this number,
however. will be credited all who may
have enlisted or been drafted prior to The
first Of March and have not been credited
to other calls. We have no data regard
ing the number that is thus to be sub
tracted from the 100000, and can, of
course, form no precise estimate how
many may enlist during the month OF
grace yet remaining. We are thus lett
10 doubt as to the exact number thai Will
need to be drafted but as volunteering
has been quite brisk and gives promise OF
Being So, a very handsome s%ubtrahend
should appear. There is reason to be-
lieve that the number needed will not 60
over three hundred thousand mem
We are to conclude from the ordering
of this draft that the Administration,
taking into account the needs of the
country, and the comparative availability
of the two. methods of raising troops, has
adopted it as a measure OF necessity.
The Government can have no predllec-
tions for the drafts SO strong that it should
prefer as a system TO volunteering Were
there any well grounded certainty that
the armies Of the republic would be with
IN a reasonable time filled up by volun
teers recruits, we have no doubt the Ad-
ministration would gladly put aside the
severe regimon of lie conscrIptFon. But
there Is no sucn %cBTIdIuIy, WHITE 1tIUre IS
the present and imperative certainty that
if the rebellion is 10 be put down our ar
mics must be increased to do it. 1t IS
therefore as the country shall elect; if
the men needed are not forthcoming it
must be accepted as a verdict IN favor Of
the draft.
In attempting to estimate the efficiency
Of the coming draft TO accomplish the
object proposed, it is impossible to go
beyond general conjecture, for the pro-
visions under which ii will be made hive
not yet been elaborated by Congress.
The bill, passed by the Senate, isl to come
up for discussion in the House to-day,
aud will, doubtless, be completed and
become a law in the course of the week.
Those who haze followed the history Of
this bill through the Senate debates are
aware that i Will be uch more rigid
in its provisions than the &C of last year.
Tn price of com mutation is rals ID from
$500 to $500. Besides, persons fur
nishing substitutes from any source but
the class not liable to draft Gas aliens,
persons under Jenty years of dge, etc,
become themselves subject TO draft, on
the exhaustion Of the enrolment. This
measure was adopted as an indispensable
means of avoiding such abuse of conrmu-
tatIon as would presently have exhausted
the military basis itself.
To all those who, on theoretical or
practical grounds dislike the Consumption,
there now remains but one course to
encourage volunteering. There is a
month, during which the stimulus Of the
large bounties offered by the Govern
ment, as well as State and local bounties,
can operate, and after that they cease.
The more we do now, the less onerous
the draft will be on the ides of March
New York Times, Feb. 1st.