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^uraterJjtmaaaiSAINT PAUL.ailnirul, Friday, Feb. 5,Two Hundred Thousand More.Order from the President for a Draft on the Tenth of March.explanatory Order from Provoet Mar-■hal Fry.Mqjor A D. Nblson, Acting Assistant Provost Marshal General and Superintendent of recruiting service in Minnesota, received yesterday the following order from President Linooln :TUB‘RESIDENT TO MAJOR NELSON.Executive Mansion, 1February 1,1864 To Major A. D. Nelson, SI. Paul:Obdeiieii, That a draft for five hundred thousand (500,000) men to serve for three (3) years or during the war, be made on the tenth (10th) day of March next for the military service of the United States, crediting and deducting therefrom so many as may have been enlisted or drafted into the service prior to the 1st day of March and not heretofore credited. (Signed) ABRAHAM LINCOLN.In addition to the above Major Nelson received the following explanatory order from Provost Marshal General Fry :COL. FRY TO MAJOR NELSON.War Department, ) Provost Marshal Gen’s Office, r February 1, 1864. JThe President's order of this date for a draft on 10th of March for 500,000 men, after deducting all who may be raised prior to March 1st and not heretofore credited, is equivalent to a call for 200,000 men in addition to the 300,000 called for October 17th.(Signed) JAMES B. FRY.Provost Marshal General.FURTHER EXPLANATIONS.In our Associated Press dispatches from Washington we find additional explanations, which, in connection with the Or der of Col. Fry, makes the import of the President’s order tolerably clear :It will be remembered that in October a call for three hundred thousand men was mode. This number has been about half filled by vol. unteering and enlistments. The call now mode for five hundred thousand is interpreted by gentlemen acquainted with military affairs to include the three hundred, thousand, being in effect an additional call for twohnndred thousand. The volunteering is supposed to furnish at present an average of twenty thousand per day! The order of the President makes a credit or deduction of so many as have enlisted or been drafted prior to Marqh 1st, at which time the $400 premium expires. When these arrangements are completed, the total in the army will be half a million.The quota of Minnesota under this additional call will be about two thousand men. The quota of St. Paul will be about one hundred and twenty-nine; from which mast be deducted our surplus of sixty-three on the 300,000 and previous calls; leaving only sixty-six to be raised by volunteering or by draft. The number is so small that it can be easily filled in a month if our authorities and citizens take hold of the matter in earnest, and heartily cooperate.The New* from Fembina.Oar correspondent gives us the gratifying intelligence of the capture “ by strategy” of Little Six, a noted Sioux Chief, and half brother of Little Crow. He omitted, however, to give ns an insight into the natnre of the strategic movement, hut we are enabled to supply that omission. Mr. Tarbxll, the mail carrier from Pern -bina, informs us that the affair was planned by Captains Chamelin and Geos-vknok, and was executed by Georoe Gere, who is somewhat notorious as the individual who left Capt.'Fisk’s party last summer and subsequently reported its massacre by the Indians, and a man named McKenzie. Tiiese men, assisted ay some persons at Fort Garry, supplied “ Little Six” and another Indian nfiraed “Medicine Bottle, with plentiful potations of whiskey, which soon reduced thepi to “swinish sleep.” A sponge, well saturated with chloroform, was applied to their nostrils, which fixed them in that condition for a long time. They were tied and damped on a'dog-train, and ran overthe line into Major Hatch’s camp, and when they awoke they were not a little surprised to find themselves surrounded by our exultant officers and soldiers. We suppose our correspondent had in his mind the case of Mason and Slidell, and how nearly a rupture was produced by it between the English Government and onr own, and did not care to detail the particulars. But it is too good a thing to keep, even if its relation results in the reclamation of the savages to the custody of their British sympathizers and protectors.Mr. Tabbbel states that the people of the British settlement are heartily sick of the company of the Indians, and wonld be very glad if they would leave, but have no sympathy with the efforts of onr soldiers to capture them. They will listen calmly to the recital of the Indian massacres, and then turn on their heels and laugh at the impotent indignation ofthe Americans, and boast that the inur- j derers are under the British flag. The I Americans are gettiug somewhat exasperated, and would not shed many tears if the Indians got hungry and desperate enough to “ clean out ” the British settlement.Locality of the Sioux.An officer at Eort Abercrombie writes as follows: “ From the best informationfrom scoots sent out from this post to Devil’s Lake, and from half breeds, I am of the opinion that there is not more than •ixty lodges of Sioux east of the Missouri River and south of Turtle Mountains, and are divided as follows: At Devil’s Lake, twenty ; on Upper Cheyenne River, from five to ten, and on James River about thirty. These Indians are all Sissitons, of whom Standing Buffalo is principal Chief. The lower Indians who committed the principal outrages, are in the British settlements. Their prinoipal Chief 1 Little Six,’has been secured by Major Hatch. Ton will probably have heard of this before this letter reaches you. Of this fact there is no doubt.”
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Saint Paul Weekly Minnesotian And Times
Saint Paul, Minnesota, US
Fri, Feb 05, 1864
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