M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1865-01-19

CANApA AIMING THE QUALITY OF THE
FORCES A DRAFT
In the wear 1865 finds Canada
arming It is about to put forth its
strengthen paper. Its force con
sists OF one hunired aud twelve bat.
ttalions of militia, termed "Service
Militia" and these are to be filled at
once by Il draft, ana as follows:
In Canad WSst..................8 81 1aRllions
In Canada East ''''.............. 81 battalion,
Iotal'''' '''' '''''''..''......ll2 bat'al ons
The battalion viii muster G35 men.
and III battaIions viii. therefore. give
80, 64O, or, with the Officers 100000
men. in round numbers.
This force'is nov being filed mp by
a draft FROM all able bodied males be.
tween ;he agos Of eighteen and iorty
five, who form the Eighteenth Glass
Service men. It is to receive six
days drill at any time that the Cover.
nor General may order it.
The men, rs body, are hardy, and
ot n mixed race, MOTEL for courage.
The arms that can be lurnish5l them
at short notice are not good, beine
only the mnsSet. The force is being
organized in way that ia not at all
up to this time Of scientific war and
it IS very evident that the men at the
head OF the militia Of Canada are very
inapt at their work. It that force is
to remain in their hands it can never
be very efficient one, or one able to
cope with the militia of this country.
liis landed by two deputy adiutant
generals, one for each section Of the
province, the Judicial for the Eastern
section being very ignorant.
In addition to this force, one Of
volunteers numbering two thousand
men, has been gcHe,lonned along the
frontier, in order 20 prevent raids upon
the territory o, the United States 1t
Is ioictd into jhrao administrative"
battalloG-tha, is, OF companies taken
lOr a linBC irom. he -voIuuseer iorcsI
and put in battalion, that they may be
administered as each. = Gin, Eagar.
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Determination. OF lie Amimis,Tn-
tioa-to Wage War Of determination
Against the Rebels.
special Correspondence of the Chicogo Times
WAsuNGTcN, Dec. 30.
The re-aesembIing Of Congress aE-
ter the holidays will mark an import
ant era in the history Of the war.
Hitherto it has been conducted with
some shallow pretenso as having for
Its object The restoration OF the Union.
The preteXt is nov laid aside The
mask has been worn already too long,
in tha opinion Of Nj. Lincoln and his
advisers. Now tina; he is finally sea
ted upon the throne for four years
more, with powers far ex ;oollng those
oi a constitutional mrnarcn, ii is lelt
that any further conc1ament Of the
real objects and purp see OF the war
would be the sneerst atf,clation.
That Obi CT was pretty plainly
shadowed rorth IN the recent speech
OF General Butler in New York. and
IN the resolutions ofsrad by Mr. Rul-
IinF, ot N. H.. in Congress. 1t is, in
pIal words, no longer to treat the
inhabitants Of the Southern Stales as
II there was any possibility that they
might, at anJ luture time, aga n be
oni ieII0w. ciliz1ns but to treat them
as tho children Of Israel were ordered
to treat the Oanaanites, the Hittites,
the Jcbus'tes, the AnOnites, the uiv-
ties, and the Pcr.zites, and all other
inhabitants Of the ldnd winch was to
be their possession -namely: To ut.
terry destroy them and til ir cities,
aud to root them out, they and their
wfvee and their little ones, and take
their possessions for their spoil. Their
eye was not u pity, nor their hauu to
spare.
In Ike manner our generals are
now to be instructed that, the rebels
having refused to submit to the au-
.horIty Of the government, having
refused the Promised amnesty, and
lavlug refused 50 abolish slavery, the [
Line has come, in the words OF the
Presidents lasI message, to Withdraw
al offers Of amnesty tl.at have ever I
been made to them, to consider them {
IS incorrigible rebels, and to wage
against them u war OF DETERMINATION
md conquest. Such a war will now {
,e commenced, aud will be waged
With the whole power OF the govern |
neut. t
1t will not be, however, any wor5e
n its teatufes Of barbarity than the
ast Campaign OF Sheridan in the
,Leiani ah valley, nor will #