The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-05-31

enrolment lists of the District were re-
vised and corrected; SO that as little
delay as possible should lake place by
drawing such persons as were manitestly
unit by reason of physical disability,
alienage or non-residence, to perform mil
itary service. When this had been done,
the total enrolment of the Congressional
District was then ascertained, and the
quota assigned by the Provost Marshal
General was distributed among the sub
districts pro rata to their respective
enrollments.
In establishing quotas under the call
of December 10Th, 1864, the process was
more lengthy and difficult than it had
formerly been, and being less easily com
pretended by the people, it was the sub
ject of no little CONSERVATION in districts
that had contributed few men to fill up
the armies. When the excess in years OF
service was taken into consideration,
there was vast difference in the condi-
ton OF sub-diStricts, some being apparent
ly overtaxed that had been always fore
most in their efforts to comply with the
demands of the Government, and had filled
with promptuess every reauisitiOn made
accession and through chance rather than
philosophic foresight, were relieved of
their oppressive burdens and vouchsafed
security for long time to come. As a
striking Instance of the injustice effected
in some parts of the District by taking
ip to consideration the number of years
service furnished, [ need only cite the
case of sub-district number 30!, compri-
sing the borough of MYeytown, Miffiin
county.
In the early part of the var, there was
company of volunteers recruited in this
place and the townships surrounding it,
nearly all of the men coming from the
latter and the officers from the borough.
The men with very few exceptions re-en-
listed at the expiration of their first term
OF service, and as their post Office address
IN nearly every case was M'Veytown, it
was given on their muster-in-rolls as the
place for which they enlisted, thus Becu-
ring their credits to the borough, which
paid them very little if any local bounty,
when in reality very few Of them were
residents of the place, and when they
might have received liberal bouuties bv
being credited where they properly be-
longed.
This accession, while it uujustly OPP
pressed the depleted townships from which
these ,neu came, multiplied the credit of the
borough to such an enormous extent that
1t never after furnished man, and has
now az the close of the war an excess over
all calls, Of Stri!y tsco gears service, which
is ample credit in d town Of its population
against 4 call for naiiiion men. l might
multiply examples Of this kind in which
county-seats and small towns were favored
at the expense Of the rural districts in
their vicinity, but the one | have cited is
sufficient as an illustration.
In ascertaining the quotas of su5-dis-
tricts under the call of Dec 10, 1854
there was 10 Uniform percen tage to be
applied In all cases as before. not even SC
mucn simplicity as an intimate resenI.
blance In the calculations whence the
correct quotas were derived after innu-
merable additions, su6tractions, multipli
cations, and divisions.
The number of men required from this
Congressional District having been an.
nounced by the Provost Marshal General
after he had taken into account the cred
its to which it was entitled by estimating
the total number of its years service by
''one," "two" ard ''three years men :
| and the excess of years service over the
/ whole number of men furnished Il equal
lied this credit by adding it to the quota
of the District an gross, and distributing
it among the sub-districts according to the
number enrolled In each. This gave the
| quota of the sub-district, increased by the
excess In proportion to the number en-
rolled but as the number of "one," ''two'
and ''three years men," respectively, had
been furnished without regard to the
! number enrolled, | Subtracted from this
gross quota, the actual amount of excess
IN years service which the sub-district
had furnished, or added its deficiency
and the result was the net quota or mum
Der Of men required under this call.
According to this formula, modified oi
course as to results by the difference in
the status of sub-districts, the respective
quotas were arrived at; and though much
of its workings seemed to the people use
lessly inexplicable, its final results are
! believed TO have been correct and just
The late hour in the history of the war a
which it was determined to reward the
patriotism and generous loyalty of certain
localities and rigidly exact justice from
others, by taking into consideration the
number of men aud years service which
each had furnished IN response to The
! calls of the Government, was perhaps ont
of the most potent arguments why suct
difficulty should at first be experienced II
doing exact justice to all. In subsequen
/ oollo ;f ,baro had heaO occasion theretnr