New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-16
TIVE DRAFT COMMENCED IN THIS CITY.
Complete List Of the Names Drawn in the
LIST, 9TH, 9th, and 18th Wards.
TIE DRAFT TO Be CONTINUED TO-DAY.
BRISK VOLUNTEERING WILL SAVE THE c0NscRIpTS

was taken BY surprise and 1t became the general
Of conversation. Every person liable to military duty
was anxious TO learn their fate. Up to o'clock noon
the Provost MarsAas In inter Ignorance as 10
whether there woud be any draft or not and In fact
some Of then quite positive that there would be
no orders to that effect. q f...s.I f.. sal
In the Fifth District, Lieut.. Ward. acting for Capt
West who IS Ill., addressed Capt Brownson as follows:
OFFICE OF THE PROVOST. MARsHAL, },
FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, NEwYoRK
NRw-YoRK, March Is, 1865.
Capt. - r. BRowysoN. Assistant AdJutdHtGtHrat
Southern Dirision Nee York.
CAPTAIN: have the honor to inform you that was
not relieved from my station, Battery barracks yesr
day until late in the afternoon and therefore was una
BILE TO enter upon my duties at this office until this
morning am recruiting fast an possible this morn
ing with good prospects, and therefore request 70 Oe
informed whether shall commence the orat lmme'
diately. -.r 100.
Notices for prominent gentlemen Of this district to
attend the draft are ready for delivery 49,. :,
First Lieut. Fist U. s. Cavalry,
Acting Provost Marshal Fifth District N. X.
The letter wss returned with the following indorse-
ment: ......... ........... IalfNau aitA
Respectfully returned. Lieut.. Ward win commence
the draft Immediately on receipt Of TINS. and repoF
commencement Of the same IL. 4. bRowSsoM .
"A. A. c., In charge CT Office"
When this order was received at the Provost Mar
shals headquarters the officers BIZ lily engaged in
examining, mastering, and paying reerAits. .lFf
Directions were at once given, however, TO prepare
for the draft and the clerks were set to work TO make
mp the accounts Of deficiencies and credits to complete
the correction Of the lists for recent exemptions ana
the wheel was put in order about p. m. lAw-
The orotss Of the districts with the twenty-five per
cent reduction, are as follows ,,...r. Ia
Fourth District 3coe men Eighth District 2,5lI men
Fifth District. 1880 men Ninth District. 2O+9 men
s stt,I District s77 men Total i, 7s3 men
The credits TO apply are about twenty-five hundred
men. The substitutes are distributed mostly among
the uptown districts Volunteers are credited equally
to the districts 900 It .tr l-T
In the morning Capt Manerre received letter rom
Capt Brownson, A. A. G., stating that IL the hiingop
Of the quota by volunteers and substitutes DO rapo
completed those persons who were drafted would NOT
be required In other words it seems to be the aim OF
the Government to urge the otherwise tagging sea
OF the people in procuring substitutes and vountees
order 10 avoid the necessity Of calling on the oonscrp
FOURTH DISTRICT.
The Draft in the Fourth Congressional District com
ursing the First Second, Third, Fourth Fifth, sixth
and Eighth Wards, Capt J. B. Erhardt, ProvostAa
shall was commenced at p. m, at No. IA Hudsonf'
and the drawing for the First Ward was completed.
The total number of names placed in the box was 2Ss
ont NJ which 3l6 names were drawn the quota, WIN
an additional 100 per cent added making total OF osS
name. drawn section Of the Fifth Precinct police.
numbering fifteen men. were present, under command
Of Can't. Petty and Sergeant Gay. guard OF nine
soldiers belonging to Co. B. Veteran Reserve, nnoef
command of Sergeant Charles Tinkw were on dusy 70
preserve order. There we're not more than twenty !"
thirty citizens present and everything passed on In the
most Quist and orderly manner. aal RS
YIrTH pIsTMCT--sEvENTH WARD.
The draft for the Fifth District COMPRISING the
Seventh Tenth Thirteenth and Fourteenth WardO.
was commenced at II O'Clock Q. ut No. va Broone-
ST.. Capt H. p. West Provost Marshal Lieut.. Robert
j. Ward, Acting Provost Marshal The whole number
OF names In the box was 1929. Quota, with IS per
cent added, soc. After some go names were drawn
further proceedings were postponed until O'CLOCK tns
morning. There were from thirty TO forty citisens
present who conducted themselves In the most orderly
manner, occasionally having laugh, or making .
pleasant remark when the name OF some weI'knowm
person was called out. A seetion Of the Fourteenth
Precinct Police under Sergeant Hnggerty. and squad
Of the Veteran Reserve Corps 10 attendance bot
their duties were merely formal. ~
SIXTH DlsTRIcT-NNTH WARD 30
The dram for the Sixth District. comprising the
Ninth Fifteenth aud Sixteenth Wards tosk place a
Nc. les Sixth. ave. Capt A. r. Coster Provost
Marshal; c. K. Glover, Commissioner; DR.. "A. i.
LOOMS Surgeon; r. L. Wendle, Clerk.
Everything having been prepared. at3l q -. Cspt.
Coster dispatched note to Acting Gen. Brown
SON requesting 70 he informed the dIait wee to be
commenced. Atlp. I'd. he received reply to proceed
Immediately and at II the wheel was set in motion and
the names for the Ninth Ward were drawn. Nanes in
the box s2l7; lquota, sa2 including the hundred per
cent ga names were drawn The Ffseenth and Six
teensh Wards will be drawn today Quite large mum.
Der of respectable citizens were present who listened
to the proceedings ntentiyely section OF the Ninth
Precinct Police under Capt. Sebrng, were present. 40
was also squad Of soldiers. p
.. SEVENTH DISTRICT.
The Office Of Capt. f. C. Wagner. No. 81 Third ave,
was visited BY many during the forenoon who bersyed
considerable anxiety TO whether or not the wheel
would reyolye there, and whea.y This District com
prses the Eleventh and Seventeenth Wards The osp-i
tain IL 90 busy in attending to recruits that he has bees
unable to sst the wheel in notion although everything
Is IN readiness During the past two days he has taken
about twenty five men, BE thinks. however he' re-
ceves no orders to the contrary that be will Prosesd
with the draft on Friday. .e5 +,
eo eos 'f'i EIGHTH DISTRICT.
There vas seme uncertainty as to whether Captain
d. T.. Msuerre (ofee No. 1903 Broadway would put
his wheel In motion and many conspicuous residents OK
the E,rhtesnA, Twentieth. and .Twsptydrst W1ds.
bcb eomvrises tho whole District visited he ofAco
.arlv In pur,uit of information. AN who know tAia
courteous official wiz not be surprised TO hear that ~
o,estions asked were chssrfuIly answered. AZ Z
All O'Clock Commissioner Kirby ascended the plat
form and announced that the drsf for the District