Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-01-10
IMPORTANT FROM CANADA.

THE FRENCH REFUSE TO SERVE AS MIIITIANES-QUEBEc ~
A TERaENT-THE REBELS IN STRONG FORCE AT MONT
MOREyCI-THE LOYAL VOLUNTEERS ~ ARMSTRONG
RESISTANCE TO PM DRAFT
from the Quebec Daily News, Dec. 81. Government
Organ
The most intense excitement prevailed in the city
last evening when intelligence reached town thai the
draft, which was to have taken place yesterday
throughout the Province, according to Act 9th, Vic
caps 22 and 49, had been resisted in several of the
counties in this district, and that the officers ap
pointed enforce il had been driven away at Chateau
Richer, and their lives threatened. Deputy AdJu-
taht General DeSallaberry, acting under directions
from the Executive Council immediately ordered
out four companies of the best and most effective Of
the Volunteer Active Militia, viz No. Volunteer
Garrison Artillery, Captain Murray and Lieutenant
Montzambert; No. Garrison Artillery, Captain
Grant and Lieutenant W Hone; Capt. Lamontagne's
field battery Of artillery two guns) and the yelling
ton Rifles, under command of Captain Gibson These
four companies left the armory about o'clock, in
| cariocs each man provided with twenty rounds of
ammunition amidst the cheers of hundreds Of spec
tatOrs.
1t is scarcely possible that the habitanS will at
tempt to resist such force, although it report
ed last night that two hundred shpcarpenters
| from ST. Roch had gone down 10 cut the Montmo-
fenci bridge and prevent the troops from proceeding
| TO Chateau Richer. Tho greatest excitement pre-
walls in the city The vOluneeL force is not expect
ed to return town before evening after the draft
is completed, unless they meet with determined re-
| sistance. The four companies are under command
| of Lieutenant Colonel De Salaberry, Mr. Justice
Mcguire accompanying the force in his official CO.
pacty We viii have news from the volunteer force
j this afternoon, which viii be communicated 10 our
readers BY extra The resistance TO the draft in the
rural districts not unexpected and has there
fore not taken the authorities nnawareS but that
force such as left the city last night should have
been deemed necessary has taken our citizens by
| surprise
1 ADpITioNAI
The Journal of last evening says 1--WE have lust
been Informed at the instant that the Rouge party
have risen at Chatt2u-Rcher against the execution
of the militia law and that the officers charged with
the duty Of putting it into effect have been obliged
TO take flight from the locality in order to save their
lives The rioters were all armed, and many of them
appeared to be under the Influence of liquor. This
| is sorry treatment Of law initiated by their OWL
/ leader Mr. Dorion. We do not know what steps the
government intends TO take under the circumstances
but, in the meantime, cannot too strongly con-
denim violence and resistance to the law, from what
ever side they Gomez.
| From the Toronto Globe of Tuesday,
The Detroit papers had given us reason to hope
that Mr. Stewards recent passport order would not bt
strictly enforced. But Saturdays proceedings tolS
la different tale At Detroit and the Suspension
lBridge every man. woman and child passing into tht
States from Canada, through passengers as well al
residents of the Province, were stopped and the
passports demanded, Many were unproydsd viii