Avoid the draft! : To the citizens of the First Ward On the 10th of March next a draft has been ordered by the government. By that time the amendment of the Conscription Act will have placed all able-bodied men, married as well as single, under 45 years of age, in the same class. Not less than eight hundred of such men are required from the First Ward. ... Volunteers are abundant, but to pay the promised bounties, a sum of not less than thirty thousand dollars will be required. Thus far our contributions have been comparatively few, and principally by those not themselves liable to draft. Our ward contains about thirty-five thousand inhabitants. These thirty-five thousand are alike interested, poor and rich, and we appeal to them for their early and liberal contributions. / By order of the committee, John F. Toole, Ald. Samuel Lutz, David Mickle.