ALTOONA, PA.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1862
•ST The Message of Governor Curtin
lias crowded out several news articles in
tended for this week’s paper, but we imag
ine that the message will bo as acceptable
as anything else we could give. -
Organization of the Legislature,
The Legislature of this State met at
Harrisburg on Tuesday last, and effected
an organization -without difficulty. In the
House the Republicans find Union Demo
crats coalesced and elected John Rowe, of
Franklin county, (Union Democrat) Speak
er, and F. W. Rauch, of C'arbor county,
(Republican) Chief Clerk. In the Senate,
Hon. L. W. Hall, of this county, was
chosen Speaker, and George W. Hamers
ley, of Philadelphia, Chief Clerk.
In the election of Hon. Louis W. Hall
to the Speakership, the Senate has shown
a proper appreciation of this gentleman’s
merits and claims, and answered the gen
eral expectation and desire. We arc sure
his brother Senators, who by’frequent and
various intercourse with him, have had
the best opportunities of estimating his
abilities and public services, would not
have chosen him to this honorable position,
unless he was in every way worthy of it.
The brilliant parliamentary qualities he
displayed heretofore, fully justify the ex
pectation that he will preside with distin
guished ability. His constituents whom
he has faithfully and worthily represented
in his Senatorial career, thus far, cannot
but be gratified by this new and unmis
takeable proof of his rising fame. On
hiking the chair Mr. Hall delivered the
address which we subjoin, which is most
aptly conceived and expressed—full of no
ble and patriotic sentiments, to which every
loyal heart,will respond:
Senators I thank the kind
partiality which has raised me to the dig
nity of your presiding officer. I accept the
honor with diffidence in my ability to fulfil
your expectations, but with the determi
nation so far as in me lies, to give to the
duties of the position my industrious and
impartial efforts, and I claim, as I have no
doubt I shall receive, at your hands, indul
gence towards myself, whilst you exercise
forbearance and courtesy towards each
other. 1 cannot but be impressed with
the liveliest emotions of pleasure at this
generous confidence on your part, anima
ting me anew in the discharge of public
.duty: I yet feel how idly I would employ
your time in felicitating myself upon the
attainment of civic honors, in this “awful
and rugged crisis,” when above all per
sonal considerations, the salvation of the
Republic should engage all our thoughts.
We meet in stirring times. An epoch
in our National life is upon us. Events
of vast importance in quick succession
cluster fast, decisive, perhaps of our des
tiny, perhaps of the destiny of mankind.
For let this government be overthrown
from within itself, and who can ray, but
that its great underlying principle, the
capacity of man for self government, shall
be thrown aside for the future, by the peo
ple of the world, as a failure.
Our State is. inseparably' linked with all
the others. Wc share a common fate,
either of disgrace and ruin, or permanent
power and glory. All other questions of
political economy, or governmental policy,
are merged in the one great issue of Na
tional life or death. For what are all
other interests worth, without a govern
ment that can maintain* l itself.' What
other public calamity' can be compared to
the National overthrow ? Wars have vis
ited our cotmtiy in times past, waged by
the savages of the forest, and the self-styled
“mistress of the Se;is.” Pestilence has,
at various times wasted us; public credit
lias gone down, while succeeding waves of
financial revulsion sweptthe social state.
Yet, blessed by a benign government, our
country has outlived them all. Put where
is the hope of resurrection from the grave
of National disintegration ! We cannot
be too deeply, anxiously, impressed with
the conviction that unless we conquer in
this struggle, all is lost. There can be no
peace unless we conquer peace. If wc
should even tender the olive branch, a
thought which cannot be entertained for
a single moment, the rebellions States
would disdainfully reject it. All the sac
rifice that may be made in this war, all
the treasure that may be expended, all the
evils that are inseparable from it, and which
the humane croakers for peace arc con
stantly aggravating, arc light, in compari
son with the untold evils which would fol
low a triumphant rebellion. But if we
could even agree upon a peaceable sepa- |
ration, how long would peace continue?
The disloyal Southern States intoxicated
with success, would be more aggressive,
domineering and unscrupulous than ever
Before. An eternal conflict of jarring in
tefests would entail Interminable internal;
wars upon alt our posterity, whilst our I
weakened, divided; demoralised condition 1
would constantly invite the aggressions of !
the grasping potentates of Europe. If this
government has not the power of subduing
a rebellion, it Ims not the power of pre
serving itself. It is nowon its great trial. ;
Now is the time for the solution of the
grand problem. European monarchists
point to this country as the last great ex- ;
amplification of the impossibility of a per* j
manent republic. Do they predicate the !
failure of our country on the mere fact |
that civil war exists ? What Nation in ;
all liistory has been exempt from it ? Is !
it peculiar to Republics? Then, whence !
the civil wars that from-her earliest his- .
tory until recent reigns, have time and j
again, ravaged and scourged the British '
Empire ? Why is it, that England safely
moored in that quiet cove of blest tran- ;
quility, a limited monarchy, has been fre- i
quently tom from her moorings and tossed :
madly in the seas of revolution? If aj
monarchy be the symbol of strength and ,
perpetuity whence the War of the Roses? !
Why has the blood of monarchs in France 1
so oiten glutted the sayage vengeance of |
internal tactions? Civil war indeed exists.
A war on our part, to put down an un- I
natural, ungrateful, matricidal, Hell-born |
Rebellion. Long plotted, it has been j
hatched at last into wicked life, and seeks.-
with treachery, falsehood, theft, robbery,
arson and murder, as its allies, to dissolve
this blood-bought Union, our priceless
heritage from our forefathers. The mag- !
nitude of the contest, the tremendous con- j
sequences of discomfiture, can hardly be j
exaggerated. But who doubts the result ? j
Superiority of strength, numbers and re- j
sources, and the invincible will of a united i
North must triumph. As certain as Truth |
and Justice sit enthroned in Heaven, there |
can be but one issue from this eontlict. 1
The North may have to spend profusely j
her treasures, and her patriotic sons pour i
out their life-blood like water, but the i
Government must and trill be sustained.
The omens arc auspicious. Hitherto the
Rebels, immensely inferior to the Loyal- I
ists in numbers and aggregate wealth, have
far excelled us in energy and vigor. We !
were slow to appreciate the true,state of
the case. Nor is it surprising. True to
the Union and the Constitution ourselves,
hereditarily and proudly loving the one and
religiously venerating the other, we were
loth to believe it possible that men were so
lost to the glorious memories of the past
and the bright hopes of the future, as to
recklessly and diabolically conspire to over
throw both. Six hundred thousand free
citizens —volunteers marshalled on the
battle-field in defence of the government,
atfords an evidence of .strength which the
world has never before witnessed. Let
monarchists contemplate the incredibly
short time in which this immense armv
has been raised, the discipline to which it
has attained, the spirit of undying devo
tion which animates all, and learn the les
son of our Republic's strength.
The noble State which honors us with
seats in this Chamber, has been true to her
traditional renown.. More than 100,000
Pennsylvanians are Inow in the field, and
wherever they have; had an opportunity of
facing the foe, their actions have shown
them as martial in spirit as they are dis
tinguished for discipline. Of such gallant
spirits, ready to die for their flag.
Pennsylvania may well be proud. We
know that their names and deeds will illus
trate the brightest records of this unhappy
war, and that they will never desert the
post of duty, until victory' wreaths its
laurels around their brows, and the re
stored bond of union shall be,
“ Unbroken as the sacred chain of nature
That binds the jarring elements in peace.
The present session will doubtless be one
of great importance. Whatever public
affairs may demand our attention, (it is
needless for me to surmise what they may
be) it becomes us to lift ourselves above all
personal and party interests and to act in
that grave, dispassionate and dignified
manner, which should ever characterize
a Legislative body. From my knowledge
of the Senate, I confidently anticipate that
the peculiar duties of my position will be
rendered light and easy, by your cordial
co-operation in the maintenance of.strict
order and the careful observance of parlia
mentary rules. Again I thank you, Sena
tors, for the honor you have conferred upon
me, and doubt not that, mutual prudence
and patience will enable us to transact the
business of the session pleasantly to our
selves and to the welfare of our constitu
ents.
At noon on Wednesday the Governor’s
Message and accompanying documents
were received and read, but we have only
room to-day for the
GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE.
To the Honorable the Senate and House of Pepresentalivcs
of Vie Ojinmonwcalth of Pennsylvania :
Gentlemen’:
It has pleased Divine Providence, during the
last season, to give ns abundant crops, unbroken
jicaee within onr borders, unanimity among onr
people, and tints to enable this Commonwealth to
do her full duty to the country, to herself, and to
posterity. For these blessings we have cause to be
grateful.
. The balance.in the Treasury on
the 30th Nov., 1860, was $081,433 OS
j The receipts during the fiscal
I year ending Xov. 30,1861, were
| as follows;
: From ordinary sources, $3,017,045 57
! From temporary loan under Act
. of April 12, 1801, at G per
; cent.'interest, and uegutia
i 1 ted at par ;.. , 475,000 00
; From 6 per cent, loan under
i Act May 15,15G1, also uogo-
I. tinted at ijir 2,612,150 00
1 From Society nf Cincinnatus... 500 00
; From United States o» account
i of military expenses 606,000 00
i From Fay Masters and others,
i refunded. 32,229,45
m . , . . . : —: 0,740,525 02
Total into Treasury for fiscal'
year cuding Nov. 30,1861 $7,424,958 10
And the payments as follows:
For ordinary purposes . $3,144,450 34
For military purposes, under
Acts of April' 12. 1861, and
May 15 and 16,1861:
474,873 85
1,708,462 08
170,535 51
2*53,872 0+
For amount of loan under Act
ot April 12, 1861, repaid.
Le*riH£ balaace is Treasury, Not. SO, ISOI, $1,56],G05 ~,i
I*UBL3C DEBT, FENDED' AND'UNFUNDED.
Ueceired ftoin temporary loanj
under Act April 12,1861
Hepaid as'aboito'
Outstanding Nov. 30,1861
Received.froa loan under Act
of May 15,1801
Amount of public debt, tiiinlrd
and,unfunded, Nov. 30. 1860, 07.909.517 50
Paid during fiscal year 101,331 42
Sa7,*CS,SHS 08
Remaining unpaid, CesclnMve
of military loan* above men
tioned,) Nov. 3Uj 1801
nCCKXPTS AND EXPENDITURES OF MILITARY LOANS.
llqceipts from military loan,
under Act April 12, IS6I
*• *• Way 15, ~
From i’ay Masters aud others,
refunded 22,229 45
Paid for military expenses, as
above
Paid lor redeeming loan, Act
April 12, IbOl
Unexpended of military loans
KKCIUi’TS .VXD EXPENDITURES OF ORDINARY
Balance iii Treasury, from or
dinary sources, Nov.3u, 1860, C 83.433 08
Kecciveil from ordiunry sources
during fiscal year
Paid for ordinary expenses, as
above
Unexpended of ord’ry revenue
Received from United States
Government, on account of
military expenditures
Received from Society of Ciu
cimiutus
Balance in Treasury, ns above,
It will lx; observed that the fiscal year ends on
the 30th of November, and the sinking fund year
on the first Monday in September, which accounts
for the apjiarent deficiency in the amount of debt
paid as stated in the Treasurers report, and bv the
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. The State
has on hand a surplus of uniforms and equipments
which cost about $190,000, which the United
States have agreed to take and pay for at cost.—
Arrangements have l>cen made with the general
government for the reimbursement of the military
expenses of the State since the 27th of July last.
The bills as paid are forwarded to Washington
and partial repayments have already been made.
It will be observed that the receipts from ordi
nary sources of revenue for the year 1801 have de
creased, but as payments have been made on some
of them since the settlement at the end of the fis
cal year on the first ot December, and more may
reasonably be expected in addition to the payments
to be made by the National Government as here
inafter stated the balance available in the treasury
will be largely increased.
It will also be observed that it has not vet been
found necessary to call in nil of the loan'effected'
under the act of the 18th of May best.
In some items the ordinary revenue of ISGI was
in excess of that of 1800.
The loan authorized hy the net of May 15th,
1 SOI, tv;Ls tak.cn at par. This occurrence, most
gratifying under all the then existing circumstan
ces ot embarrassment, affords triumphant evidence
of the confidence of the jieopie in the stability and
integrity of the Commonwealth and of their de
termination to support the Government.
The operations of the Sinking Fund during the
last year have been as shown by my proclamation
of sth September last, as follow :
Debt redeemed from 4th September,
1800, to Ist Sept. 1861, $OOO,BOl 01
Of Stock 10an5...... .$300,050 00
“ interest on certificates, 3,330 01
w relief notes, ‘ .-..421 00
I refer to the reports of the State Treasurer and
Auditor General for the details of the financial
affairs of the Commonwealth. The reports of the
Surveyor General and'Style Librarian will exhibit
the state of the Departments under their care.
The Commissioners of the Sinking Fund during
the last spring received from the Philadelphia and
Eric (late Stmbury and Erie) Railroad Company
forty bonds of that company for $lOO,OOO each,
and a mortgage to secure the same executed in
conformity with the third section of the act of
March the 7th, 18(il. Thatcompanv has also de
posited itt the State Treasury its bonds to the
amount of five millions of dollars, in accordance
with the oth section of the same act. On the oth
of May last I granted my warrant authorizing the
State Treasurer to deliver to the said company one
thousand of said bonds, being to the amount of
one million of dollars. Tins warmht was issued
in conformity with the law, the live per cent,
bonds mentioned in the liftli section of the act
(except those belonging to the State and now in
the Sinking 1* uiul) having been previously surren
dered and cancelled, and satisfaction entered on
the Record ot the Mortgage mentioned in said
fifth section. Having received notice from the
company that the bonds so delivered to the com
pany or their proceeds had been appropriated in
accordance with the provisions of the law, on the
21st of June last I appointed John A. Wright as
Commissioner to examine and to report to me
whether said bonds or their proceeds had been ap
propriated to the purposes required by tiie act. —
His rcjiort hits not yet been received by mo.
It is understood that arrangements have at last
been made under, which the direct railroad con
nection between Philadelphia and Eric will be
completed within a short time. It is impossible
to estimate too highly the importance of this great
work to the Commonwealth, and especially to
Philadelphia and Erie and the hitherto neglected
counties near its route west of the Susquehanna.
Hy the act of the 21st April, 1858, for the sale
of the State canals to the Sunburn" and Erie rail
road company it was provided that if that compa
ny should sell said canals for a greater sum in the
aggregate than three and a half millions of dollars
seventy-live per centum of such excess should ire
paid to the Commonwealth by a transfer of so
much ot suclt bonds and securities as said compa
ny should receive for the same and payable in like
manner.
The company sold the canals and reported that
the share of the profit on such sale, due to the
Commonwealth was £281,230 of which £230 was
paid in cash and for the remaining £281,000 the
Commonwealth received coupon bonds of the Wy
oming canal company to that amount, lining a
portion of bonds for £OOO,OOO issued by that com
pany and secured by a mortgage of the Wyoming
canal, formerly called the Cower North Branch
canal. Th(tso bonds hear an interest of six i>er
cent. ]ier annum, payable semi-annually on the
13th of January and July, and the interest was
I slid by the company to January last inclusive.—
The interest due in July last has not been paid.—
Judgments having been obtained against the com
pany on some of the coupons for the unpaid Julv
interest, a hill in equity was filed in the supreme
court by a bond and stock holder in which such
proceedings were had that by a decree made on
the 2d September last the property and affairs of
the company were placed in the hands of a receiver.
A plan has been suggested for the assent of the
stock and bond holders which contemplates a sale
of the canal under lawful process and a purchase
of the same for the purpose of forming a new coin
piny, of which the capital stock shall he one mil
lion of dollars, divided into twenty thousand shares
of fifty dollars each, of which each assenting holder
of a mortgage bond for one thousand dollars shall
be entitled to eighteen shares, and each assenting
holder of fifty shares of stock of the Wyoming ca
nal company shall be entitled to nine shares. Of
course no officer of the Commonwealth had author
ity to assent to the proposal or in any way to af
fect her position. It is believed also that the plan
is not one that ought to be assented to by the Com
monwealth, and that under all the circumstances,
if the convenience of individual parties requires a
change such ns proposed, the debt due to the Com
monwealth ought to be first paid or fully secured.
iJ suggest that die Act passed Bth of April 18G1,
entitled, “An Act concerning the sale of railroads,
canals,&c.," should he modified so that in all cases
in which a debt may bo duo to the Commonwealth
by the company as whoso property a public work
may be sold, the' purchasers thereof shall not be
375,000 00
5,8732552 38
475.000 00
375.000 00
100,000 00
2,612,150 00
$37,805,516 08
475.000 00
2,612,160 00
3,110,379 45
2,353,872 04
375,000 00
2,728,872 04
$300,507 41
UEVKNUE,
3,017,045 57
3,009,078 '65
3,144,480 34
551,508 31
600,000 00
500 00
$1,561,606 72
-$500,801 01
entitled to the benefits and privileges conferred by ; dercii It to encamp at that city, where it remained
the Act unless they shall have first paid the debt i until the-80th of June. The National Govem
due to the Stale, or secured the same by their -Bient declined to muster the regiment into service,
bonds to the Commonwealth secured by a first i as all existing requisitions made on the State were
mongage on the work itself. " , i more than filled.
I commend the subject to the immediate consid- j Much apprehension existed in the Western and
oration of the Legislature, as an effort may be ' South-Western borders of the State,, and it was
made at an early day to enforce a sale of the canal, deemed prudent to retain the regiment at Pitts
and some provision by law to protect the interests burgh to meet any emergency that might arise.—
of the State would in that case lie necessary. i After the passage of the Act of 15th May, 1861,
The wicked and monstrous rebellion which broke i it was expected that the regiment would form part
out many months ago, has not yet been quelled. ; of the Reserve Volunteer Corps; but ns the men
Every sentiment of loyalty and patriotism demands ; had been a long time from home and remained
its effectual suppression. ' inactive in camp, they declined entering the -ser
in my messages of the Oth and 30th of April vice, and were subsisted and paid np to the 30th
last. I set forth at length my views of the character of June by the State. Two regiments have since
and objects of the contest which is still pending, been enlisted from the same part of Pennsylvania
Subsequent reflection has confirmed me in the cor- at the city of Erie, one of which has been at
rectness of the opinions then expressed and to Washington, in service, since September, and the
which I refer. In addition it ought to be under- ' other is now ready for marching orders—and it is
stood, that looking to the variety and character of I due to the Ist Eric regiment to say that most of
her products and industry, her material interest the men arc now in service,
alone would render the preservation of the Union Further requisitions for sixteen regiments of
from present assault upon it. indispensable to Penn- infantry and two regiments of cavalry were shortly
sylvania. She cannot afford to have a foreign afterwards made by the War Department. Of
power below or above or hounding her on the Del- these, sixteen have already been raised and are
aware, tire Chesapeake or the Mississippi, and she in the service of the United States, and the re
will never acquiesce in such a result, whatever maining two are in the course of organization and
may be tlic cost in men and money of her rcsis- ready to march.
tanee to it. In addition to the requisitions on the State, the
On the Oth of April hist I directed the attention War Dejsirtment had given authorities to numerous
of the Legislature to the necessity which existed individuals to raise volunteers in Pennsylvania, hut
for an improved military organization, and on the as that system was found to create much embar
12th of the same month the Act entitled "An Act rassment, a general order was issued by the War
for the better organization of, the militia of this Department on the 25th of Septemliec last placing
Commonweath'’ passed, appropriating the sum of all such organizations under the control of the
§500,000 for the purpose of organizing, equipping Governor, and shortly afterwards a requisition was
and arming the militia. On tire 15th of April the made on the State to* increase her quota to 75,000
President by proclamation, called for a military men. Those independent organizations, as thev
force of 75,000 men, of which the quota assigned were called, thus became Pennsylvania regiments
to Pennsylvania was at first sixteen (afterwards and, as completed and sent forward, form [«rt of
reduced to fourteen) regiments to serve as infantry tire quota of the State.
or riflemen for the term of three months uh- The State regiments have been numbered, and
less sooner discharged. This call, was enthusi- the last to this date is numbered 115. Two of the
ustieoliv responded to by the people of Pennsyiva- three months regiments have continued in service
nia. The first military aid from the loyal States, under the later requisitions, and retain their origi
whicir tire Government received at Washington, nal numbers. Deducting the remaining twentv
was a Pennsylvania corps which arrived there prior three three montlis regiments, there are ninety-two
to the 19th of April. On that day the (sassage of regiments in service and preparing fork.’ We
other corps from this and other States through have also in service and preparing, twenty-four
Haltimore was Impeded by force and during nearly companies.
two weeks afterwards the communication between The following table of the existing Pennsylvania
Washington and the loyal States was almost entirely volunteer force is given for information
cat oft'. On the 19th I received a request from
the War Department that the treops preparing in
this State should be clothed, armed, and equipped,
subsisted and trans|)ortcd by the State in conse
quence of the then inability of the United States.
Tliis request was of course complied with, and
twenty-five regiments, (being eleven regiments be
yond our quota,) comprising 20,175 men from
Pennsylvania served for the term of three months
under the President's proclamation above referred
to. As the famishing those volunteers with sup
plies was necessarily under the circumstances a
hurried operation, and as complaints were made
in regard to them, and frauds were alleged to have
been perpetrated, 1 appointed a board of commis
sioners to investigate the whole subject. A copy
of their report with the evidence taken by them
has been already laid before the public. It is the
intemion of tne Auditor General to open the ac
counts of such parties as ajipcar by the testimony
to have been overpaid and this course has already
been taken in two of those cases
On the expiration of. the term of the three
months men in July last, some eight or ten thou
sand discharged Pennsylvania volunteers were
thrown into Harrisburg, without notice, and de
tained here, waiting to be paid, for an average
time of some ten days. Their tents, camp equip
age and cooking utensils had been taken from
them at Williamsport, Md., and they arrived here
destitute of all means of shelter and of prewiring
their food. The Commissary of the United States
furnished uncooked rations, and under tiie circum
stances of emergency I deemed it necessary to
make arrangements for aiding in the cooking and
baking of the rations, and also for furnishing meals
to such of tiie regiments as arrived during the
night, or under circumstances requiring instant
relief. The expenses attending these operations
amounted, so far as ascertained, to $7+1.20, and
I recommend that tire Legislature make an appro
priation to pay them. It ought to l>e stated that
these expenses would have been much larger, but
for tire liberal and patriotic efforts of tiie citizens
and especially the ladies of Harrisburg; their free
handed hospitality and generous aid to our wearied
and hungry soldiers, deserve remembrance and
gratitude.
At the special session of the Legislature which
commenced on the 30th of April last, I recom
mended the organization of a reserve corps, to
be armed, equipped, clothed, subsisted and paid by
the State, and drilled in camps of instruction, in
anticipation of the exigencies of the country, and
by the Act of the 13th of May last, such a corps
was directed to be raised, and a loan of £3,000,000
was authorized to defray the expenses of that and
other military operations. Men more than suffi
cient in number to form some ten regiments of the
Reserve Corps had, previous to the 13th of May,
been accepted by me, in pursuance of a call on
the (afterwards rescinded,) fur twenty-five regi
ments, and were then already asscmbled'and subject
to my control. Most of these men volunteered
for the Reserve Corps and were immediately or
ganized. The remaining regiments were rapidly
rccruitcd and the Corps was thus completed, and
George A. McCall, of Chester county, was com
missioned as Major-General, and assigned to the
command of all the forces raised or to be raised
under the provisions of the last mentioned act.
The regiments composing the Reserve Corps were
instructed in four camps in different parts of the
State, until they were taken into the service of the
baited States. Two of these regiments, under
the commands of Colonels Charles J. Biddle and
Seneca G. Simmons, and two companies of Artil
lery under, the command of Col. Charles T. Camp
bell, at the pressing instance of the War Depart
ment were sent, on the 22d of June last, to the
relief of Col. Wallace, at Cumberland, and re
mained for about six weeks there and in Western
Virginia, engaged in active operations.
.towards the close of July the whole Corps was
called for under requisition, and taken into the
service of the United States. Within four davs
after the disaster at Bull Run, eleven regiments of
this tine body of men (armed, drilled, clothed and
equipped, and in all respects ready for active ser
vice,} were in W ashington. The regiments and
companies from Western Virginia mid the two
remaining regiments making the whole number of
fifteen, soon joined them there, and they are all
now in service tinder the command of Gen.’McCall,
who has been commissioned ns a Brigadier Gen
eral by the United States.
These fifteen regiments contain fifteen thousand
eight hundred and fifty-six men. and constitute a
division comprising three brigades, a regiment of
artillery and one of cavalry. 'The whole expense
of raising, clothing, equipping, subsisting and pav
mg “ic Reserve Corps, (including the expense of
establishing and fitting the camps of instruction,
of recruiting and supplying regimental flags, and
the expenses of the campaign .of the two regiments
and companies in Maiyhmd and Western Virginia
which were all defrayed hy the State,) has amounted
to ijbo.'i,-Hi.B7 ■ This docs noUnelnde the trans
portation on rail roads, as the separation of that
account would have been a work of great labor
nor docs it include the pav of the two regiments
during the campaign, but it does include all the
expenses, which were heavy, of teams and trans
portation not on rail roads, for the two regiments
on the campaign above mentioned. Twelve regi
meats of the Reserve Corps were paid, subsisted
to the average date of 22d Julv. The two
regiments in Western Virginia were paid by the
State to the date of their depirture from Harris
burg on tliat expedition. The cavalrv regiment
vyas not paid by the State. It will be’ perceived
TM the whole average expense per man was
§03.05.
1 reviews to the 31st of April last, n regiment
had been enlisted in the city of Erie from North
western 1 ennsylvania. When the call was made
on me on that day, for twenty-five additional regi
ments, the Eric regiment was ordered to march
to Harrisburg. The call was rescinded, however,
before the regiment reached Pittsburgh, and 1 or-
REGIMENTS IN SERVICE
G 6 regiments of infantry, of which C wore riflo
regiments*
11 regiments of cavalry.
1 regiment of artillery.
COMPANIES IN SERVICE.
7 companies of Infantry 70T
G •' ** cavalry 578
G « “ artillery 930
t 2 221
87,177
Enlistments in other than Pennsylvania organize
tious, estimated, (the officers of which are Ih
course of being commissioned) 0.100
Total in service
REGIMENTS PREPARING FOR SERVICE
12 regiments of infantry
1 >u “ cavalry..
1 “ li artillery
COMPANIES PREPARING FOR SERVICE.
1 compauj of cavalry
4 companies of artillery
In gervice j
Preparing for service
Pennsylvania's contribution ; ; 10u.G15
Ksclusive of 20,175 three mouths men now UiebuudvU.
The regiments preparing for service are incom
plete. Those that may not l>c filled i.y the Kith
instant, will be consolidated and sent forward. Of
the regiments in service, the 11th and 15th regi
ments of Infantry arc at Annapolis ; the 28th, 29th.
21st, GGth, G9th, 71st, 72d, and IGGth regiments
and one company of Infantry are in the command
of Major General Banks;'the +sth, 50th, 55th.
7Gth and 100th regiments of Infantrv are in South
Carolina ; the IStli Infantry are at Hattcras Inlet;
the 108th Infantry and 11th cavalry are at Fortress
Monroe; the 77th, 78th and 79th Infantry, the
7th and 9th cavalry, one troop of horse, one squad
ron of cavalry and two battalions of artillery are in
Kentucky; the Blth and 110th Infantrv" arc in
Western Virginia, as are also three couqianies of
Infantry, four companies of cavalrv. and live com
panies of light artillery; the 87th’ Infantry are at
Cockeysvillc, in Man land ; one company of artil
lery is at lort Delaware; all tiie remainder of tiie
volunteers arc at or near Washington. Upwards
of 300 volunteers from Pennsylvania are now pris
oners, but as arrangements’have been made for
tbe exchange of prisoners it mav be exjioctcd that
they will soon be released.
In compliance with the joint resolutions of the
Ifitli of J lay last, I have procured regimental fiags
for the Pennsylvania volunteers, and have .present
ed them in person to most of the regiments. In
other cases, the regiments being on or near the
Potomac, I have requested Mr. Cowan, Senator,
and Messrs. Grow and Wright, members' of the
House of Representatives, from Pennsylvania, to 1
present Uem in the name of the Commonwealth.
The General Government requested that the
States would abstain from purchasing arms, as their
competition was found injurious in the market, and
in view of the large expenditures of monev in arm
ing and equipping the volunteer force of the State
provided lor the defence of the National Govern
ment, I did not purchase anv as authorized by the
-Sth section of the act of the 13th of May, 1S(!1.
Ihe State has now quite as many arms as arc ne
cessary to anti all her volunteer’ organizations in
existence; hut, influenced by the threatening asjicct
ot oty relations with foreign, governments, I have
directed the Adjutant General to procure arms as
soon as it can he done on reasonable terms mid
without injurious competition with the National
Government. Anns have been distributed among
the border counties to all the organizations that
have been formed to receive them. 1930 arms
hav e been thus distributed I have also addressed
a letter to the commissioners of all the Itorelcr
counties, offering arms to them as soon as military
organizations shall he formed to receive them. Be
sides thus complying with the requirements of the
2 rth section of the Act of 13th May last, I have ■
deemed it prudent to offer live thousand anus to
such military organizations as may be formed in
1 hiladclphta on a plan to he approved by me as
Commander-in-Chief. .Muskets and rilles to a
considerable extent have been furnished to the
Pennsylvania volnnteeis from the State arsenal.
Others have Iteen sent by the United States autho
ntics to unn them before leaving the State In
some cases regiments have gone without arms un
der assurances from the War Department that they
would lie armed at Washington or other near de
signated points, and that their immediate departure
was required. It was thought wise in these cases
not to insist on the arms being sent before the regi
ments marched, as this would have imposed on the
government an umneccssary expense in freight,
and would have been productive of delays which
might have been seriously detrimental to the pub
lie service. Forty-two pieces of artillery with lim
hors, caissons, forges, ammunition wagons, harness
and all the necessary implements and equipments
were furnished by the State to the artillery regi
ment of the Reserve Corps. Ten of those were
purchased by the State, and their cost has been re
tundod hy the United States. Diligence has been |
used in collecting arms throughout the State and i
repairing and altering them in the most approved '
manner. I
The State has now
_G3 pieces of artillery, of which 17 need repairs.
2G,753 muskets and rifles, some of which are in the
hands of mechanics being repaired; 1910
ore in the hands of volunteer corps through
out the State; 1930 in the possession of
County Commissioners, and 1,000 with the
reserve corps of Philadelphia.
In addition to this the city of Philadelphia has
9 pieces of rifled artillery, and
1,976 muskets and rifles.
The Sate has also in the arsenal at i '
1,966 sabres and swords, and "’Elarj
1,937 pistols, and the eft f of Philadelphia k„
440 sabres, and * w
326 pistols with the necessity acboutreiw
There is also in the Arsenal at Hnrrijli
large amount of accoutrements and *
fer artillcrv and small arms.
Tlte Adjutant Geiwrnl is successfully
in collecting arras throughout the State
expected that the nmnber above stated «-i* *
largely increased. Probably, at least. 3 030 ’*
kets and rides and several pieces of
still be collected. - .’• *3
....The care which has been bestowed upon ■
comfort of the volunteers,’ and the goodneV ,?
sufficiency of their supplies of all kinds, and ?
excellent arrangement of the Medical Dqtina"’
under the control of Surgeon Central Heniv n
Smith, are proved by the livct that more titan’*'* ’
000 men have for various, generally s i lort ,
at Camp Curtin since the I Oth of April la.it ,■
that down to the Ist January Inst, there died u
forty-nine moil at that camp, viz., forty-fiinr jV, ’
sickness, two (belonging to regiments ‘fiuini
States.) who had liecu injured on railroads Av,
accidentally killed in Camp Curtin and une ,ii!
in Harrisburg.
To facilitate the making of allotments of .j„ :
pay by onr volunteers in the field for the supon?
their familcs at home, I appointed Hon. jy,j’ r ’
Cowan, Thonuis E. Franklin and E. C. lhin,'~'
Es<]s., comiuisioncrs to visit the cnni]is of our n*.
on and South of the Potomac, and also James
aiid.M. AV. Beltzhoover, Estjs., conunissioncN*
visit those in Kentucky, and elsewhere in the
tern country, to call the attention of the tnxijs ;•
the system of allotment- and encourage them
adopting a practical plan for earn ing it iutouf.v.
The several rejioits of these commissioner,,,'.
highly satisfactory.
For details ot* the several subjects connected TriiV.
military operations of this State, I refer to the rrpciia
tie; A.ljut.mt General, thirteen General, Quarter y v .j
Gouerah Oomniissar.v General and Fayuiaster ('■
which accompany this uiessarre.
Tho duties »ttij>oscJ ou iuo were so onerous that
it ueHcseary to invite tho temporary aodstanco
men on my staff to ui.l nic to perform them.
lu this capacity Cols. Thomas A. Scott, Gideon J. jjv:
and John A. Wright contributed their valuable s .. r ,|
from the middle of April until they were called nwJV!
other duties. Ctd. Scutt remaining until Ik* hrciaii.'/*
uecU'd with tha War Depaatnumt, Col. Hall until Hie - .*'
of dune, and Col. Wright uutrl tho '23d of duly: f.iM l '
time thus devoted to the sorvico of the State llu-v'bve •'*
fused to receive any compensation. ’ , " c '
Cola. Joseph D. Potts, A. L. Uuascdl. J. Brown Parkin-,
Ctai- Biddle were in service tip to the *Jnth of , ‘
The Department of Telegraph and Trnn.-TKirtati.ia
■dor the exclusive controj of Col. Potts, The «v fi t,. ni 7.'
economy of its management show how faithfully aLj
he fulfilled hisofMce. It is but just to all these "euil, "' :
that 1 should hear testimony to the untiringzeal'-in.i'io 3
ity with which their duties were performed. >
'1 in- (junta ot the Mate havilg been more liian iillai --
ht-r military force organized. I was enabled, m, the Mh .
December last, to dispense with a personal stall nul r"
temporary arrangement which had been made f', r it,.,
ployment wtis then closed.
71.180
12.000
1,077
51.95 G
By the lotli seetb n of the art of the lath c f j[. 1T
I was anlhoriicri to draw my warrants on tlu-Tre ou'r, (*'
n sum not exceeding $--M,lHJti for compeimtiuu ta-ml,j .'
eons as might be required to serve the country in ami's'
ry capacity, ate. Of this fund I have drawn fc,7
Treasury $5,500. out of which 1 paid the compensaiJ*’
my personal Mall, abo other expenses ol the milium C
liartment, and the actual expenses of persons mini,.rib',
temporary serviee, none of whom received any i‘ m i •
compensation. and expenses of the commis-ion, aravr i'
to investigate alleged frauds, Ac., and the expni.,4 ,V
tahlishtng military patrols on the Maryland lin» and '••”*
on secret service. My account is settled in *l' Ll , ,
the Auditor General up to the first of December. Oii" •
day 1 had expend' d #(1.400. and except some iucoiisiik-rp”
payments made since, the balance remains in my b:o’
The report of the Uuditor General will exhibit tUt-K
of the account.
93.577
13,092
1,136
1,07?
— 15.305
On account ol military expenditures hv the Stater,jp.
half of the Caitcii States, ns far as the same had th ;i
ascer-amed and settled by theaceonntingdeparinumt.L.-'
was made up to the first day of September.
seuted on the PJth nf that month at the Treasury Into-,
meiit nf the I, nited states lor settlement and alloKe c ■
The sum of $.106,00(1 has been received from the Tnl-ui
Department on that account. Tlie repayment by tie
oral Government of the expenses! attending the er-iie-s
lion and support of the Reserve Corps, may net lie irciii
ded ter by any existing act of Conerc.sd. As tle w .0.-.
scs were incurred by the Slate for the benefit of tUeGea-r
al Government, and have been productive nf result, ni-a
important to the w elfare and even safety of the coun'n i*
would be right that an act of Congress should bo pa-s’.-i
providing expressly fir their repayment. It lies witlu'." I
Legislature to adopt the proper means for directin'* thei*.
tciitioii of Congress to this subject. ° I
Assurances bavo lieen received from the Treasury Depot- ,
niciit licit tirs exam iaation ot the military accounts if lb* 1
Mato will be proceeded in without delay, so that the Sab
may r, e.-ive a credit for the balance due, in lime to are It
the same towards the payment, of her unotacf tlisiliml
t:tx. tho completion of this arrain'i-DH-iit, iftb*
btatc siiall aasume tho direct tax for this year, a s avic,'.:(
fifreeu per ceut will acerne to her, "and no prvjteDt increi
of her taxation will be nocosHarj. Whether Ibis cre-Jiile
given or not. I recommend that the naymentof the dirat
tax be assumed by the State.
In case (ho State assumes the payment of thistoitbrP
shunld be such revision of the tax laws us will
equitably apportion the burden among the vari‘W.3 i.'! :-
now »ul>|cct or that cun properly bo made
taxation. The saving of {ifUt-u per cent, to the pt-cjlici
the State by the assumption is a matter worthy of thr-cgtl t
but a more important consiilvnition is Uiat it \\vill mat’-'
you to represent all the varied interests of tho C-ra->
wealth to apportion the tax in such a manner a* rot v?
equally i»i*ou all. Our.revenuc laws had iajpc.wtl-cr«J
And personal property as its full prcpoiti.m bet little r.:,r
than onc*third of the taxes needed for the ordiuarr
ditnre* of the govermm-nt. Uy the act of 15th May U>r,
the tax on this species of property has already bo.-u i'J*
en ased one-sixth. Should the State refuse to assure-; ih-
I nib-d States tax the whole burden of it would fill a;-.:i
thebe intortats, interest- too, most unCireraMy affoefed It .
the war, whilst other kinds of propertv ui>*l eourres \
of revf-une, judged by our laws able to par cputlyt*-
tbirds of thb present revenues of tho Stab-,* wmild nvil*
called <>n to contribute one dollar of additional tax.
Ihe ma.itia system of the Common wealth is very
feet. 1 recommend the establishment ©f a cormmvi.a.'v
frame and report a system more adequate to tho
of the tunes. I earnestly recommend to th«
that provision be made for the military instruction -.ifyccii*
The appointment of a military instructor in tho
schools, in a short period give teachers to thfC* ”<•
mon schools who would be competent to train tho b y-' 3
attendance on them. It would in my opinion be v«i* ; ' L|
to ptvvide for the purchase or‘easing by the
of a building fo£ a military school, aud for employiDC-*--
petont instructors at tho expense of the State, jv;B*t- :2
the pupils to defray the other expenses. No papil
be admitted to this school without having passed a iL*’’
ongh examination on mathematics and all fitting
of instruction except the military art proju-r. i . re?r--' ! *
fully urge this subject on your early consideration.
of material, perhaps, vital importance.
I have taken measures to direct the cClch-nt
the (Sencrai Government to the fortification ofthov*?
approaches on the sea-boanj and the lakes, and arnr*r
monti are in the course of being effected which it isi^T* 4
will be satisfactory In their result. I scud with thi- n*
sago a copy of a commimication from Gen. Totten, chi-
tho Military Kngincer Departmentat Washington. 1
also rept r eaent«‘d to the Secretary of the Xutv
ty for lloating defences on the IMaware. and
suranco that they shall be prepaid at the carli-^t mcrjjfnt.
I have had a correspondence with the authentic &
some of the citizens of Krie on the subject «'f the dthr
le-s condition of that city, and the part of the rtat-'h’-’
dorlng on tho lake. On examination it-is found that
are no defence on the lake, and that the ordnance id
city of Krie was witlidrawu by the National Gnr.-irx.-r*.
in the summer of The Secretary of the
request made, dire rted that the ert-w of the United
steamer Michigan should not be dUlttiuled, as I*-f'
usual, and that vessel will remain in the harbor of w-’
during the winter. Should tho National
expectedly fail in its duty of providing adequate
at our assailable points, Kast and West, I earnestly
mend that the legislature take promp measures J’' r * '
puri>ofle. We should bo admonished, by recent indicat’--
trom abroad, to be prepared for our own dofrnco,
| ns for tlie suppression of domestic insurrection. ,
In selecting the site for a National Armory, if
lie good bo alone considered, Pennsylvania will be
red, as she affords the combined advantages of a
eition, abundance of material and skilled mechanic i- 3
people of nndoubtwl loyalty, -
1 commend to the attentiopof
of the Superintendent of the Public Schools, the s^:'
| ing state of which, and the rapid progress ofaducah* 3
subjects of just congratulation. _i
The reports of the Lunatic Hospital at -
of Western Pennsylvania, of the Houses of Ucfug« -
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, of tho Institution®
Deaf and Dnmb and for the Blind,'and the Northern
for Friendless Children at Philadelphia, nnd of r“*‘,
syivania training School for Idiotic and Feeble
Children at Media* show that these meritorious cnar •
j aro well administered, and I recommend that the c 0?
nance and aid of the Commonwealth be con tinned to mn--
Under the joint resolution of 16ih May lost,
era have been appointed to revise tho revenue law*.
names will bo forthwith submitted for the advice ana
sent of tho Senate. It Is hoped that the coram isaJy>-
I will be able to report daring tho present session« *
| Legislature. Considering the great'labor
| and the vast importance at the present time of an »£) '• '•
efficient performance of the duties of the commi^Jv s
I suggest that the compensation provided for by
rotation should bo increased to on adequate atuuuo •
I . It was evident. Ions; since, that it would be | 3
j for tlie banks to continue so redeem their
j coin, in the CaCe of the large issues of paper, the ; f
; for which was imposed on them and tlie £ oYer ?®T tf aj
, tho exigencies of the times. No surprise, thcreior^
1 frjt at the suspension of specie payment by tne .*•
i which took place on Monday, the 30th of Ikce /";i e v )0
i Uoder the circumstances, I recommend that tn<7
j Ueved from all penalties for this breach of the »*• -, T .
| Pennsylvania has made great efforts to Juppcjj 10 . { .
: erument. She has given more and better clothed.* r
■ ter equipped men than any other State, acd o«
; ceeded her quota of the military levies. The bob* ™
1 best citiwus, young men of ddocation and o WDI 0 %
1(5,038
93,577
16,638
■ of h*r volantwr regimoßt*. Thrii
{“iilM-l to quell the present iueurteci
raloii, *nd they wilt not tolerate a
{h,S»olntioo or recoMtroctfcm ofU-^
Kxrctrrtvi Cumin. 1
UarrWmrg, Jan’y S, IWI-J
The Likely Hea
The Christian Advocate ant
commenting upon the prohs
war between tlie United Stat
Britain, closes the article wit
which we publish below, ai
believe to be about correct,
the extract with the remark
no immediate probability of
England. It is but the fro
and the dregs at the bottom
ciety that desire a war—the
class which is really the ru
not desire a rupture. The
facturers air indeed suffcriiv.
war relieve them? The sp
oristucratical institutions of
envies the success of our
would it not he inexpedien
factory to rush into an 0
millions to undertake the tl*
humbling the young giant o
We must honor the pror
which England defends her
generosity in offering an m
her flag, hut we object to tl
the menace in which apolug
tion arc sought in this 01
when generosity should eh
actions of thasc who prof
friends. We are well couv
wo Aid not have acted so delij
in other ciivumstuncct., or if
go, she wouhl have paid *
impudence. Without mor
give the extract above all ml
Again we -predict there will Ik-
CliTuti’aiiity of Great Kritain dm
iw self-interest will. They have
war vessels, of which I.M are sfea
ing in reserve; hut how can they
here? They have an unity of
not cost something to tran-)sirt t
they not meet a foe? Our ana
half a million, and unr navy L'lG \
could easily he inereaseil. Tra
shown very inneh activity in our
should fight with dilfeivut spirit
enemy. Tho British might swvi
from the seas, and destroy onr sei
in doing so, destroy not a little
Meanwhile tlie Americans coni
commerce of Great Britain in evi
her colonies; for while she is )m
obligations from eonnnissionin
could set afloat a Beet of thousai
The strength of the British Ki
coimnerce and Colonies—would
in war. The wants of Great Br
a sale for manufactures. War
once her chief granary and eh
great strength of the United Sit
own boundaries, and war would
'ojnuent. It would convert IVt
great forge to supply us with irut
California, into a great mint, t
West-with manufactories to snpp
consume its surplus com, while
lions would become white with
lerior green with sorghum, and
minated, n protective tariff w
Great Britain out from conijuT
and looms.
As to the termination of sm-h
lie that the Union would lie di
t«, too, that the British Emphi
It is more- probable that ('ana
than that the South would la* n
side both the French and the At
would sympathize with us. whii
slave population could he freed
Should the South anticipate u--
grocs enough to turn their amis
But. this is not all. While Bi
with us in front she would lie 1
both flanks. Ireland, which
through English statute tmoks ;
through the crowd—by her hlo<
cally illustrate the 'beauties o
France on the other side, would
In 18a8 a British noble said to
mercy of Napoleon. Ilecould s
hottrs with force enough to land
he could control the arsenals; i
tho arsenals he could inarch to 1.
inarch to London he could rna
for no British ministry w ould tak
of continuing the war while so 1
population and wealth of the cm
cmy’s feet.” If that was wits tr
it not be so when Ivor navy shoal
No cry would ho so popular
to London !” Russia too might
men; while Austria, Britain's a
he kept busy by Hungary an
us from such a war! If the
come, i let not Protestantism i
-opposite sides of the Atlantic ta
the battle.
Since Adam was placed iu I
was never more pregnant of res
;at Washington. Since Israel
of the Red Sea, never was belt
sublime deed than now. May
rod, and our Miriam her cyml
hung upon the cross never w as
higher greatness than now. It
Ihe Calvary of man's {olitiet
may we. not hope that our cross
Idem not of death, but of resnn
<SJ* Major Cameron, s<|
Cameron, was recently ini
acla, on a visit to his wil
7 ’ I
of his wearing our army tl
was thought to bo other i
he was attacked by the
hut defended by the Globd
tertained by the British]
Thirteenth Regiment, and
He represents the feeling 3
as averse to a war with tl
Out of a regiment cond
twelve signified their wil
agaiostus.
will most ,lik<
mission into the Union di
session of Congress.
to effect that purpose wci
meeting held at Great £
the 6th inst. It is not lit
admitted as a State uiul
recognizing poligamy.