Year: 1863

The good feeling that has everywhere marked
the first drawings under the conscription should
not be lost upon the government A few weeks
back it shrank from putting the act In force.
1t apprehended, and with reason, that 1t would
be met with determined resistance The fierce
opposition offered to the enrolment In some of
the Western States, resulting in several in
stances in the assassination Of the Provost Mar
shals and enrolling officers. sufficiently attested
the spirit ofhostility with which IL was regarded
and the people at large, while condemning
resort to violence, made no secret of their want
of sympathy for the unfortunate victims Of these
outrages. No efforts were in consequence made
to bring the parties concerned in them to JUS
tice; for the government felt that 1t would be
resisted at every stage Of the proceedings, and
the disfavor with which the draft was viewed
be thereby greatly aggravated.


The events Of two days have completely
feeling of the people in regard to 1t. Before
the defeat of Lee and the fall of yicksburg they
looked upon it as involving merely supple
mentary waste of human life and further hu-
initiation of the country in the adaptation of
enormous resources to small ends. These two
great victories inspired the first hope that the
administration had walked up to its response
bilities, and that it was becoming earnest in its
efforts to put an end to the war. With that
generosity and largeness of spirit which marked
their conduct from the commencement of the
rebellion until they despaired of the honesty of
the men who had been placed at the head Of
affairs, they Immediately demanded that tho
conscription should be enforced, and now it is
being carried out with degree Of tranquility
and order that shows that it was not from want
of patriotism, but despair Of the sincerity and
capacity Of the administration, that it ever met
with opposition.


We trust that this lesson will not encounter
the fate Of the many which the Cabinet has re-
ceived and disregarded since the commence
ment of the war. The means which It
already has at Its command are amply sufficient
to put an end to the rebellion. The capture of
vicksburg and the crippling of Lee prove that.
OF the three hundred thousand new levies it is
probable that not one will ever be called into
the field. Their services are, however, freely
given to the government in order that all fur
ther excuses for the prolongation of the war
shall be done away with and its attitude to-
wards foreign Powers be assured. Let there be
no further hesitation and faltering in Its course
as regards either Of these objects. The nation
is determined that the autumn shall witness the
end Of the rebellion, and it will not permit the
fanatical views or personal ambition of petit
Jogging politicians, like Chase and Stanton, to
interpose between it and its purpose. Let not
these men be led into the mistake of supposing
that the submission and cheerfulness with which
this fresh call upon the physical resources Of
the country is met indicate an approval of
determination to take from them all further
pretext for tri6ing with the national patience,
and in proportion to the tremendous additional
resources placed at their disposal will be the
accountability to which they will be held.


The WAR News OF THE SOUTHERN PAPHRs-
There is nothing, perhaps, at the present
moment which better illustrates the for
lorn condition to which the rebels are reduced
than the false news published by their news
papers Take, for example, that which appeared
in the Richmond journals OF the 7th inst, imme-
diately following the two great and important
victories at vicksburg and Gettysburg. Let US
set them down categorically:-


battle Of Gettysburg . complete rout Of the Union
forces.


2-Genera Meade rstrcating towards Baltimore and
General Lee In hot pursuit.


3Lee captured forty thousand prisoners and four
thousand.


4.-Grant defeated by Johnston at vicksburg and his


6--Banks defeated at Por, Hudson and his army do
stroyed, with the exception of five thousand men.


on asn y General .s refused to
paroled and preferred Richmond General Meades


s-Ba,more, PhiIadelphia and Washington as good as
.s.-Sorfoik, Portsmouth and Suffolk evacuated by tho


loGeneral Lees army in splendid spirits and masters


1.-The terms Of peace to be dictated on Northern
SOIL


I2-ISe 10 be iu Baltimore on the eth


Here, il will be seen, are round dozen state
ments given to the Southern people as "news,n
not single one Of which has been verified. They
are false from beginning to end II is singular,
too, that although vicksburg had surrendered
three days before the date Of these publications,
no mention Is made Of the fact in the Richmond
journals


These things only prove what the letters Of
the rebel soldiers and those Of the citizens Of the
South generally which have fallen into our hands
so strongly indicats-that they are weary Of the
war, and that the publication Of this class Of
news is instigated and encouraged by the lead
ers merely to keep up the spirits Of their
dupes, the people.


SURGICAL AID PoR OUR WouNpED.-No journal
has been more earnest in calling attention to
the necessity Of providiog in the amplest man.
nsr for the relief and comfort Of our poor
wounded soldiers than the HERALD Through
our efforts many important reformations have
been effected in the hospital branch OF our mill.
tary service. But, while ever ready TO point
out defects and cases Of negligence In the medi-