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of which there were of the Twentieth regiment, Indiana, 500; the Fifth Wisconsin, 400; the Thirty seventh Massachusetts, 700; and the First Massachusetts, 300. The Boston correspondent of the Springfield Republican reports: Lowell, Natick, Clinton, and other places which are ahead of their quotas, have been exempted to that extent by the draft, and I suppose other towns which are in the same case are to be shown the same favor. To avoid a total unsettling of the draft, I learn that the G up the deficiency from the other towns on the next draft, if one is needed. This policy will make the conscription more unpopular than ever, and there does not seem to be any justice in it. It is no merit of the people of Lowell and Natick and Clinton that they are ahead of their quota. The stay-at-home residents worked no harder than those of other towns, but the circumstances made it easier then to raise men in the manufacturing than in the agricultural towns. Of 717 drafted men who h