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           NATIONAL AFFAIRS.                       Dones at the City of Washington,
this sevmtatmi day
                                                  of October, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight
                                                  hundred and sixty-tbree,
mad of the Inepdudes of the
  Military achievements few      and unimpor- United States the eighty-eighth.
tant during the past month.     Meade and Lee         sythePresident:   
  ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
have been playing '"hide and seek" in the            W    rtHl
  8nrSSWAID, Secretary of State.
neighborhood of Manassas.                            Politloal.-The elections
in Pennsylvania,
  Gen. Rosecrans has been        relieved of the  Ohio and Iowa, all of which
were held Octo-
command of the army of the Cumberland on           ber 13, resulted in large
Union majorities;
the ground   of a violation   of direct orders Iowa, and Pennsylvania, about
16,000 each,
from the Government, and of absence from the       and Ohio over 62,000 majority.
     By the laws
field of Chicamauga during the progress of of Ohio the soldiers in the army
are allowed
that disastrous battle, and Gen. Thomas, who       to vote and    at the
present rate of returns
so gallantly led one wing of the army and          Brough's majority over
Vallandigham          will
saved the whole from     utter route and ruin, probably be about one hundred
thousand.
has been placed in command of his army.              Nevada, Nebraska, and
Colorado territories

  The President has      issued the   following   have also given large Union
maje~ties.
proclamation, calling for 300,000 men to fill
the places of the soldiers whose time will ex-                 FOREIGN  
  MATTERS.
pire next year:                                      News of vast importance
from, England,
               A PROCLAMATION.                    Russia, Austria and other
nations.
  Whsereas, The term of service of a part of the volunteer Enln ha  benm
      acd    yan     ar-
forces of the United States will expire during the coming  England has been
menaced by an earth-
year; and wherea, In addition to the men rained by the  quake  The shock
took place 22 minutes put
preent draft, it is deemed expedient to call out three
hundred thousand volunteers to serve for three years or 8, A. M., October
6th, and was sufficient to
during the war, not however exceeding three yearn;
  Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lineoln, President of the break windows in many
places, set the dogs
United States and Commander-in-Chief of the Army end
Navy thereof, and of the militia of the several States  a-howling, and terribly
scare the whole brood
when called into ctual service, do tine this my procla-
mation, calling upon theGovernors ofthedifferent Ftates of wicked  sympathizers
jvwith the Southern
to raise and have enlisted into the United States service, Rebell
for the various companies and regiments in the field from  lon
their respective States, their quotas of three hundred  The foreign policy
of England is becoming
thousand men:
  I do further proclaim that all volunteers thus called  more liberal and
just towards this country.
out and duly enlisted shall receive advance pay, premium,
and bounty, ae heretofore communicated to the Gover-  Earl Russel, Secretary
of State for Foreign
nors of States by the War Department, through the
Provost-Marshal-General's office, by special letter.  Affairs, recently made
a speech, in which he
  I further proclaim that all volunteers received under
this call, as well an all others not heretofore credited, discussed the subject
of non-intervention in a
shall be duly credited on and deducted from the quotas most candid and honorable
spirit, well calou-
established for the draft.
  I further proclaim that if any State shall fail te'raise lated to promote
the interests of peace. He
  the quota assigned to it by the War Department under
  this call, then a draft for the deficiency in said quota says, in concluding
his able speech:
  shall be made on said State, or on the districts of said
  State, for their due proportion of eald quota; and the  "Such is the
spirit in which I am prepared to act. Every-
  said draft shall commence on the fifth day of January, thing that the law
of natiens requires, everything that
  18d.                                              our law, that the Foreign
Enlistment Act requires, I am
  And I further proclaim that nothing In this proclama- prepared to do, and
even, if it should be proved to be net-
  tion thall interfere with existing orders, or those which essary or the
pesereation of our neutmity, that the
  may be Issued, for the present draft In the States where sanction of Parliament
should be asked to further mess.
  it is now in progress or where it has not yet commenced. urea. In short,
to sum up, Her Majesty's government
  The quotas of the States ard Districts will be assigned are prepared to
do everytbingthat the dutyof neutrality
  by the Wrr Department, through the ProvostYarshal- requree-everuthing that
Is just to a friendly nation,
  Gieneral's office, due regard being had fbr the men hereto- taking as a
principle that we should do to others as we
  tore furnfshed whether by volunteering or drafting, and should wish to
be dens to ourselves. But thi we wili
  the recruiting will be conducted in accordance with such net do-we will
not adopt any measure that we think to
  instructions as have been or may be issued by that De. be wrong. We will
not yield  Jut of British law or
  pertment.                                         British right in consequence
oftte menaces of any for.
  In issuing this Proclamation, I address myself not only eign power."
  to the Governors of the several S'ates, hut ahsm to the  Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, previous to set-
  good and loyal people thereof, invoking them to lend
  their williz  cheerful and effective aid to the measures ting sail for
America, made a few speeches to
  thus adopted, with a view to re enforce our victorious
  armies now In the feld and bring our needful military  immense English
and fotkh adienoes, with
  operations to a prosperous end, thus closing forever the
  5,untalns of sedition and civil war.              good effeet.
  Is witness whereoo; I have hereunto set my hand and
  caused the sel of the United States to be flixed.   Mason, the " Confedevat
"       Minister, has



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