Year: 1864

DC prepared to realize all the joys and
blessings of healthful and happy life.
We may be sure that God and nature
when rightly interpreted will always be
on the side of humanity. May we all
be willing to learn wisdom from their in
struction. Yours truly,


w. r. VAIL, Nj. D., Hill, N. H.


FROM THE CAvALRY.-A SOLDIER ON
49,. .ga RECRUITING. tst 4.


To-day we obtained yesterdays paper
containing the presidents call for five
hundred thousand more men to serve
three years or during the war. Whether
we consider the document in the light in
which it at first appears or whether we
place the Interpretation upon it which
some are inclined to give it; making it
really call for only two hundred thous-
and in addition to the three hundred
thousand last demanded; still, if the pre-
vious calls do not seem likely to provide
men enough to fll the gap which will be
made in the ranks by those whose term
service will expire in the early part Of the
coming summer, then this call is a stroke
of policy Bringing men into the service
now, will accustom them to the duties
which will soon be required of them,
and the absence Of those so long chief
part of our armies will not be so severely
felt. and military operations need not be
impeded for a lack of men. n .
The prospect of another accession of
numbers provokes comment upon those
who have already reached us and upon
the manner in which our state has met
the draft. In the beginning let me state
in plain terms, so that there need be no
misunderstanding OF what follows, that,
so far as my own observations have ex.
tended, large portion of those who have
lately joined the army are vigorous mer
who will make good soldiers--men whe
seem to have come here to aid in the work
as well as to receive the pay.


But wish to ask few questions, and
| shall direct my enquiries to two classes
of persons who remain at home-thost
who are opposed to theAdministration, yeI
in favor of vigorous prosecution of th'
war, and, those who are lamentiug the ex
tensiye Generalization effected by thre,
years in the U. S. service.


Is it the part of good patriots who ar,
kept at home by their own peculiar cir
cumstances to wheedle into the servic,
and enlist mere boys and ignorant idioti'
men, liable soon to appeal to the towr
for support or foreigners so ignorant o
our language as to be unable to max,
their most common wants known by tn,
use of the English tongue, as we'll as mer
physically unable to endure the labors o
the service? 10 be sure, such men, BY
the connivance of the examining surgeon
may he hustled INTO the service amongs
a crowd of others by the mastering officer
and thereby the town on whose quot;
they are counted may reap the doubl
benefit of a still further reduction II
next years poortax and one less on tn,
quota. There is just so much less DANCE
to those whose ''business' keeps then
from volunteering themselves, besides tn
diminution of the tax-bill presented b,
the constable next spring Money, a
we'll as the community, has no conscience
and so the various Members of the societ,
from which such men can 60 Oh in thei
regular, business aud enjoy all the luxu
ries Of peace, while their poor victim i
sent to tho seat of to suffer all tn
miseries Of sickness amid want which b
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