Year: 1864

circular from his Office in this city, which, it is
said, will result in placing new army" at the
service Of the Government. The circular is as
''''s' aa ,osi''g WAR DEpARrMEsr,


,s1sI PRovosT MARSHAL GENERALS OFFICE.


tsts8 Fashinglon. Jnhs 20, 1864.
CIRCULAR No. 25-Persons not ft for military duty and
not liable to draft age other have expressed
desire to be personally represented In the army In ad
dillon to the contributions they have made u the way of
and present enstment recruits to represent them in
the service Such practical patriotism worthy Of special
oommendaton and encouragement Provost Mashals, and
all other officers acting under his Bureau ordered to
urnish ell the facilities in their power to enlist and muster
promptly the acceptable Representatives recruits presented
In accordance with the design herein set forth.


The name of the whom the will
be noted on the enlistment and descriptive roll of the re-
cru and win be carried forward from those papers to the
other oficis records which form his military history


Suitably prepared certificates Of this personal representa-
ton in the service will be forwarded from this oce to be
filed out and issued by Provost Marshas to the persons


JAMES B. Fay,


t"t Provost Marshal General


It will be seen that the novel feature of this
military proposition is the arrangement which the
Provost Marshal proposes. to make for perpetua-
ting on the enlistment and descriptive lists Of the
army a historical connection and relation between
, the representative recruit and the non-com-
batant constituent by whom he is delegated to tight
the battles Of the country. Ibis combination of
the names Of military principals and proxies, we
are assured by Gen. Fry, will be "carried for
ward" from the papers of original enlistment "to
the other official records which form the military
history" of representative recruits and it is in this
light that we beg particularly to call the attention
of all non n.combatants who are ambitious to attain
high military distinction in the person of their
representative recruits to the following hint of
the Boston Daily Advertiser


"Geu Fry promises that the of the person whom
the recruit presents shs be noted the enlistment and
descriptive r Of the recruit and shall be carried forward
from those papers the ther official records which form
his military history. Thus if we interpret the order cor.
rectly any gentleman however much he may be bowed
down by the nrmities of years. might in the course OF
events unless the to avery speedy conclusion
become brgadier generally proxy-pryided heseleot
ed efficiently brave and energetic man as his representa-
tive Thus is military glory brought within the
reach Of money Seriously however this is unguestens
bly, additional motive for the truly patriotic TO send good
We do not perceive any possible objection to
this invention except the double labor it must ne
oessarily impose on the clerks of the Adjutant
General, who shall be required to keep the bi-
furoated records Of this army, containing twice a,





MANY names on its rolls as men in the ranks. The
Paymaster General, moreover, will, of course, be
careful to explain to all his subordinates the novel
and peculiar quality Of these descriptive lists, that
inexperienced paymastcrs may not be misled by
the dual arrangement of names into the error Of
making double disbursements, or of paying to the
principal what is due only to the proxy. We dc
not know who is the author Of this curious device
for arraying the martial ambition of
and exempts, (whethcr male or female, as the
New York Times suggests,) in the service OF re-
cruiting for our armies, but the expedient GER
tainly has the merit of originality, and We sin.
oerely hope that its success may be such as to vim
dcate its sagscty and dispense with the necessity
of any future "drafts."


The Secretary Of the Navy has il is reported, recon