BY DAY© OYER.
FIRST ANNUAL MESSAGE
OF
ANDREW 0. CURTIN,
GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA,
To Both Houses of (he" Legislature.
HEAD JAX. 8, 1862.
To the Honorable the Senate and House of
Representatives of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania—
GENTLEMEN : It has pleased Divine Provi*
deuce, during the lost season, to give us abun
dant orops, unbroken peace within our borders,
unanimity among our people, and thus to ena
ble 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
80th Nov., 1860,
was $681,433.08
The receipts during
the fiscal year end
ing Nov. 30, 1801,
were as follows:
From ord'y sources, 3,017,645,67
From temporary
loan under Act of
April 12, 185!, at
C per cent interest
and negotiated at
par 476,000
From 6 pt . cent,
loan under Act of
May 15,1861 also
negotiated at par. 2,612,150
From society ofCin.
cmnatus 500
From United Siates
on acount military
expenses 606,000
From Pay Masters
and others, re
funded 32,229.45
Total into Treasury
for fiscal vear end
ing Nov. 30, 1861 7,424,958,10
And the payments as follows :
Forord'ry put poses $3,144,480.34
For military expen
ses,
Under Acts April 12
met, ..<I MAY, I 5
and 16, 1861.
474.873.85
1,7(8.482.68
170,535.51
For Am't loan un
der Act April 12,
1861, repaid 376,000 6,873,352.38 ;
Leaving balance in
Treasury, Nov 30,
1861 $1,551,605.72
"PUBLIC DEBT, FUNDED AND UNFUNDED.
Received from tem
porary loan, un
der act April 12,
1861 475,000
Repaid as ai ove 375,000
Outstanding Nov 30
1861 100,000
Ree d from loan un
der act May 16,
1861 2,612,150
Am't of public debt
funded and un
funded, Nov. 30,
1860 37,969,847.50
Paid during the fiscal
rear 101,331.42
37,868,616.08
Remaining unpaid,
(exclusive of mil
itary loans above
mentioned,) Nov.
80, 1861 37,868,516.08
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES OF MILITARY LOANS.
Receipts from mili
tary loan undr
act" Apr. 12, 1861 475,000
' May 15 2,612,150
From Pay Masters
and others refund
ed 32,229.45
P'd mPt'y expenses
as above, 2.353,872.04
P'd for redeeming
'oan, act Apr. 12 375.000
Unexpended of mil-
iriwv loans $ 390,507.41 I
RECEIPTS ANO EXPENDITURES OF ORDINARY REVENUE.
Balance in Tre"ury,
from ordinary
sources, Nov. 30,
1860 681,433.08
Received from ordi
nary sources dur
ing fiscal year 3,017,645.57
3,699.078-65
Paid for ord'ry ex
penses, as above 3,144,480,34
Unexpended of or
dinary revenue- $54,598.31
Rec'd trum United
S. Gov. on aot
military expend. 606,000
Rec'd from Society
Cincinnatue 500
Balance is Treasury, .
as above $1,651,605.72
1$ will be observed tbat the fiscal year ends
oo'the 3&b of November, and the linking
fond year on the first Monday in September,
which accounts for the apparent deficiency in
tbi amount of debt paid as stated is tbe Trea
surer's report, and by tbe Commissioners of
the Sinking Fund. The State his on band a
surplus of uniforms and equipments wbiob
oogt about $190,000, which tbe United States
bive agreed to take and pay for at cost. —
A rangements have been made wi h the Gen- i
cml Government for tbo reimbursement of the
tuiliury expenses of the State siooe the 27th
of July is#t. The bills as paid are forwarded
to W -shrogtou and partial repayments have
already been made.
It will be unsolved tbat tbe receipts from
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ordinary sources of revenue for the year 1861
have decreased, but as payments have been
made ou some of them since the settlement at
the end of the fiscal year on tbe first of De
cember, unJ more may reasonably be expected
in addition to the payments to bo made by
the National Government as hereinafter stated,
the balance available ia the treasury will be
largely iuoreaaed.
It will also be observed that it has not yet
been found necessary to call io all of tbe loan
effected under the aot of the 18th of May
last.
In some items the ordinary revenue of 1861
was in excess of that 1880.
The loan authorized by the aot of May 15,
1881, was taken at par. This occurrence,
most gratifying under all the tbea existing
circumstances of embarrassment, affords triurn*
pliant evidence of the confidence of the peo*
pie ia the stability and integrity of the Com
monwealth, and of the determination to nap*
port tbe Government.
Tbe operations of the Stoking Fund during
the lakt year have beeu as shown by my Pro
clamation of sth of September last, as fol
lows :
Debt redeemed frem 4tb'of September,
1860, to Ist of September, 1861 $300,801 01
Of stock loans $300,050 00
Of interest on certificates 3,830 01
Ot relief notes 421 00
1 refer to the reports of the State Treasurer
and Auditor General for the details of the fi
nancial affairs of tbo Commonwealth. The
reports of the Surveyor General and State Li
brarian will exhibit the stato of the Depart
ments under their care.
The Commissioners of the Sinking Fond
during the last spring received frcrn the Phil
adelphia and Erie (late Suabury and Erie)
'Railroad Company forty bouds of that Compa
ny for SIOO,OOO each, and a mortgsge to se
cure the same executed ia oomforaiity with tbo
tbir.l section of the act of Match the 7th, !
1861. Th'O company has also deposited in :
the Stato Treasury its bonds to the amount of j
five millicas of dollars, in accordance with tbe
6th section of tbe same aot. On tbe 9lb ot 1
May ?it 1 granted my warrant authorizing I
the State Treasurer to deliver to the said
company one thousand of said bonds, being to j
the amount of one million of dollars. This
warrant was issued in conformity with the
law, the five per cent bonds mentioned in the |
fifth section of the act (except those bolorgtng
to the State and now iu the Sinking Fund)
baviDg been previously surrendered and oau
eelled, and eatit-factioa entered on the Record
of the Mortgage mentioned in said fifth sec
tion. Having received notice from the com
pany that the bonds so delivered to the com
pany or their proceeds have been appropriated
in accordance with the provisions of the law, :
ou the 21st of June last, I appointed John A.
Wright as Commissioner to examine and to
report to mo whether said bonds or their proa
oecds had been appropriated to tho purposes
required by the act. His report has not yet
been received by me.
It is understood that arrangements have at
last been made under which tho direet rail
road connection between Philadelphia and
Erie will be completed withiu a short time.—
It is impossible to estimate too highly tho lift* j
portance of this great woik to tho Common
wealth, and especially to Philadelphia ami
Erie and the hitherto neglected counties near j
its route west of the Susquehanna.
By the aot of the 2lst April, 1858, for the j
sale of the State canals to tho Ounbury and
Erie Railroad Company it was provided that j
if that company should sell said can ..is for a
greater sum in the aggregate than three and j
a half millions of dollars, seventy fivo per j
centum of excess should be paid to the Com- !
mouweaith by a transfer of so much of such ;
bonds and securities as said company should .
receive for the same and payable in like man- .
nor.
The company sold the canals and reported
that the share of the profit on such sale, due
to the Commonwealth was $281,250, of which
$250 was paid in cash, and for the reuikimug
$281,0C0 the Commonwealth received cuupuu
bonds of the Wyoming Canal Company, to
■ b<t amount, being a portion of bunds for
$900,(K)() issued by that company and secured
by a mortgage of tho Wyoming canal, former
ly called the Lower North Branch canai.—
These bouds bear an interest of six per ecut
per annum, payable semi-annually ,oa the 15th
of Jauuary and July, and the interest was
paid by the company to January last inclusive.
The interest due on July last has not beco
paid. Judgments Laving been obtained against
the company ou some of the ooapons (or the
upaid Jaly interest, a bill in equity wasfilod
in tbe Supreme Court by a bond and stock
bolder, in wbtoh such proceedings wero had
that by a decree made on the 2d, of Septem
ber last, the property and affairs of the com
pany wire placed io the hands of a receive
or.
A plan has been suggested for the assent of
tba stook and bond holders, which contem
plates a sale of the oaual, under lawful pto
oess, and a purchase of the auine for the pur
pose oi forming a new company, of which the
capital stock shall be ooe million of dollars,
divided into twenty thousand shares of fifty
dollars each, of which each assenting h"luir
of a mortgage bond, for one thousand dollars,
shall be entitled to eighteen shares, and each
assenting holder of fitly shares of stock of
the Wyoming Canal Company, shall be eoiU
tied to uine sht.es. Of course no officer of
the Commonwtaitb bad authority to asseut to
the proposal, or in any way to affect her posi
tion. It ia believed, also, that the plan is
not one that ought to be assented to by tbe
Common wealth, and that under all the circum
stances, if tbe convenience of individual par-
BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY. JAN. 17- i 862.
ties requites a change as proposed, tie debt
due to the Commonwealth ought to e first
paid or fully secured.
I suggest that the Act paesel Bth
of April, 1861, entitled, "Au Act concerning
the sule of railroads, canals, &o," sbaiid tie
modified so that iu all cases ia which * debt
may be due to the Commonwealth by tbi com
pany a# whose property a public work uny be
sold, tbo purchasers thereof shall not b en
titled to tbe benefits and privileges conferred
by the Act unless they abail have first paid
the debt due to the State, or secured the same
by th- ir bouds to the Commonwealth smured
by a first mortgage on the work itself.
1 commend the subject to tbe immediate
consideration of the Legislature, as an fFurt
may be made at an eatiy day to enforce a
sale of tho canal, aud some provision by hw
to protect the interests of tua Slate wotld in
that case be necessary.
The wicked and monstrous rebellion which
broke out many months ago, has not yet been
quelled. Every scutiment of loyalty aid pa
triotism demands its effectual suppression.
In my messages of ihe 9th and 30ih of April
last, last forth at length views of tbe,char
acter and objects of the contest which is still
pending. Subsequent reflection has continued
me in the correctness of the opinions theu ex
pressed and to which I refer. Iu Addition it
ought to bo understood, that looking to tbe
variety and character of her products aud in
dustry, her material interest alone would ren
der the preservation of the Union from the
present assault upon it, indispensable to Peuu
syiyauia. She cannot afford to have a foreign
power below or above or bounding her on tho
Delaware, Ihe Chesapeake or the Mississippi,
and she will never acquiesce iu auoh a reatlt,
whatever may he the cost in men aud money
of her resistance to it.
Ou the 9rb of April of last I directed tho
atteutiou of tho Legislature to the necessity
which existod for an improved military or
ganization, aud oa tho 12ih of the samo urorth
tho act entitled -'Aii Act for the better organ
ization of the militia of this Common wealth"
pas-ed, appropriating the sum of S6OO,QuQ
for th psrpsis of orgsuizing, equipping and
arming tbe militia. On the 12th of April
the President, by proclamation, called for a
a military force of 75,000 men, of which
tbe quota assigned to Pennsylvania was at
first sixteen (afterward reduced to fourteen)
regiments to serve as infantry or riflemen for
tbe teirn of three mouths unless soouer dis
charged. This cali was enthusiastically res*
poudod to by the people of Pennsylvania.—
The first military -id from the loyal States,
which the Government received ut YY ushiugton,
was a Pennsyivaaia corps which arrived there
prior to the 19th of April. Ou thai day the
passage of other corps from this and other
States through Baltimore was impeded by
force, and duriog nearly two weeks afterwards
the communication between Washington and
tha loyal Sates was almost entirely cut off.—
Ou tho 19th 1 received a request from the War
Department tbat the troops preparing in tuis
State snoaid be clothed, armed, equipped,
subsisted aod transported by the State in con
sequence of the thea inability of the United
States. This request was, of course, complied
with, #.d twenty five regiments, (betug elev
en reirimeiita beyond our quota,) comprising
20,175 men from Pennsylvania served for the
term of t'ureo months uuder the President's
proclamation above referred to. As tba tur
uisbiug those volunteers with supplier was, ne
cessarily, under the circumstauces, a hurried
operation, and as complaints were made in re
gard to them, aud frauds were alleged to have
been perpetrated, I appointed a board of coui
missruuers to investigate the whole subject.—
A copy of their report with the evidence ta
keu by them has beeu already laid before the
publio. It is the intention of the Auditor
General to open tho accounts of such parties
as appear by the testiuieuy to have been over
paid, and this course has already been taken
tn two of those cases.
Ou tbe expiration of.the term of the three
months men, in Juiy last, some eight or ten
thouaaud disohargeJ Pennsylvania volunteers
where into ii&rrisburg without notice
and detained here, waitiog to bo paid, for an
average time of some tou days. Tfioir touts,
camp equipage and (looking utensils bad been
taken from them at YViliiaaisport, Md., and
tuey arrived here destitute of all means of shelt
er and of preparing their food. The Commis
sary of the United States furnished uncooked
rations, and under tha circumstances of ouier
genoy 1 deemed it necessary to make arrange*
mcuts for aiding in the cooking aud bakiug of
the rations, and also for furnishing moais to
such of the regiments as arrived during the
Right, or under circuursUnoes requiring instant
rehef. The expenses attending these opera
tions amounted, so far as ascertained, to $744-
20, uud I recoommeud that the Legislature
make an appropriation to pay thorn* It ought
to be stated that these expenses would have
been much larger, but for the liberal and pa
triotic efforts of the citizens, and especially
ihu ladies of Hatrisburg; their free-handed
hospitality and generous aid to our wearied
hungry soldiers deserve reuitiuberauoe aud grat
itude.
At the special session of the L<visiaiuri)
which commenced on the 30th of April list,
I recommended the oigunizttiou of a reserve
corps, to be kraied, equipped, clothed, subsis
ted and paid by the Bute, and drilled iu camps
of instruction, iu anticipation of tho exigen
cies of the country, and by tbe act of the 15th
of May last, such a corps was directed to bo
raised, and a loan of $3,000,000 was author
ized to defray tbe expenses of that end other
military preparations. Men more than suffi
cient in number to form some teu regiments of
the Reserve Corps had previous to the 15tb of
May been accepted by mc in pursuance of a
call on me (afterwards resoinded), for twenty*
five regiments, and were then already Assem
bled and subject to my control. Most of these
men volunteered for the Reserve Corps, aud
were immediately organized. The remaining
regiments were rapidly recruited and the corps
j was thus completed, and Geo. A. McCall, of
Chester county was commissioned as Major
General, aud assigned to tbe oumuiand of all
the forces raised or to be raised under the
provisions of the last mentioned act. The
regiments composing the Reserve Corps wero
instructed in four camps iu different parts of
the State, until they were taken into the ser
vice of the United States. Two of these regi
ments, under the commands of Colonels Ohas.
: J. Biddis and Seneca G. Simuions, and two
companies of artillery, under the command of
Col. Cbae. T. Campbell, at tho pressing in
stance of the War Department, ware snot to
the relief of C6l. Wallace, at Cumberland,
aud remained for about six weeks there and
in Western Virginia, engaged in active opera
tions.
Towards tbe close of July the whole Corps
was called for under requisition, and taken in
to the service of the United States. Withiu
four days after the disaster at Bull's Run,
eleven regiments of this fine body of men
(armed, drilled, clothed, equipped, aud tu ail
respects ready for active service), were in
Washington. The regiments and companies
from Western Virginia aud the remaining two
regiments, niakiug the whole number of fifteeu.
sooo joined them there, and they are all now
in service under tbe commaud of Geo. MoCeli
who has been cowmissi-juod as a Brigadier
General by the United States.
These fifteen regiment* eontiin fifteen thou
sand eight hundred and fifty-six men, aud con
stitute a division comprising three brigades, a
regiment of artillery and one of cavalry. The
whole expense of raising, clothing, equipping,
subsisting and paying tho Reserve Corps, (ia
eluding the expense of estaolisiuog and fitting
the camp of instruction, of recruiting, and
supplying regimental flags, and the expense*
of the campaign of the two regiments and
companies iu Maryland and Western Virginia,
wbioh were ',i defrayed by tbo Stele) has a
oaunuted to $855,444,87. This does not in
clude tbo transportation on railroads, as the
separation of that account would have been a
work of great labor, nor does it include the
pay of the two regiments during theoampaign.
but it does not include all the expenses, which
wero heavy, of teams and transportation, not
oo railroads, for the two regiments on the cam
paign above mentioned. Twelve regiments of
the Reserve Coips were paid, subsisted, &0.,
by tba State to the average date of 224 July.
The two regiments iu Western Virginia were
paid by the State to the data of their depar
ture from Harrisburg an that expedition. The
cavalry regiment was not paid by the State it
will he perceived that th whole average ex
pense per man w .s $53,95.
Previous to the 31st of April last, a regi
ment had been enlisted in the city of Eric
from Northwestern Pennsylvania. When the
call was made ou mo on that day for 25 addi
tional regiments, the Erie regiment was order
ed to march to Harrisburg. The call was re
soinded, however, before tbe regiment reached
Pittsburg, ad 1 ordered it o cue* cap at that
city, where it remained until the 30th of June.
The National Government deelineo to muster
the regiment into servioe—as ail existing re
quisitions mad* on the State wcie more than
filled.
Much apprehenoion existed io tbe Western
and Southwestern borders of the State, and it
was deemed prudent to retain the regimont at
Pittsburg to meet any emergency thai might
arise. After the passage of the Act of the
15th May, 1861, it was expected that the regi
ment would form part of the Reserve Volun
teer Corps, but as tbe men bad been a long
time from home and remained inactive in camp,
they declined entering the aerviee, and were
substituted and paid up to the 30th of June
by the State. Two regiments have since been
enlisted from the same gpart of Pennsylvania
at tbe city of Erie, ooe of which has been at
Washington in service siuce September, and
the other is now ready for marching orders —
and it is due to tbe first Erie regiment to say
that, most of tbe men are now in servioe.
Further requisitions for sixteen regiments
of Infantry and two regiments of Cavalry !
were shortly afterwards made by the War
Department. Of these, sixteen havo already
beeu raised and are in the service of tbe Uni
ted States, aud the remaining two are io the
course of organisation aud nearly ready to
march. „ ;
In addition to tbe requisitions ou the
State, the War Department had given author
ities to numerous individuals to raise volun
teers in Pennsylvania, but as tbat system was
fouad to create much embarrassment, a general ;
erder WJB issued by the War Department on
the 2o;h of September last, placing all sueh
grgauiauiioris under the control of tbe Gover
nor, and shortly after a requisition w.is made
on the Statu to iuereasc her quota to 75.000 j
men. Those independent organizations, as
they were called, thos beoarna Pennsylvania
regiments, aud as completed arid sent forward,
foim part of the quota of the State,
The State regiments have been uumbored,
and the last to this date is numbered 115.- i
Two of the three months regiments have con
tinued in service under the late requisitions,
and rctaiu their Original numbers. Deducting ;
the remaining twenty-three three months regi
ments, there are ninety-two regiments in ser- i
vice and preparing for it. We have also in i
service and preparing twtnty-f'our companies, j
The following table of the existiug Peausyl- "
vauia volunteer force is givdn for iuforma
tion;
REGIMENTS IN SERVICE.
66 regiments of infantry of which 6 were
rifle regiments, 71.189
11 regiments of cavalry. 12,690
1 regiment of artillery. 1 077
84,956
COMPANIES IN SERVICE.
7 companies of infi.utry, 707
6 • " cavalry, 578
6 artillery, 936
2,221
87,177
Euligtments in other than Pennsylva
nia organizations, estimated, (the
officers of which are iu course of be
ing commiesioaeo,) 6,400
Total in service, 93.577
REGIMENTS PREPARING FOR SERVICE.
12 regiments of infantry, 13.092
1 " " cavalry, 1,138
1 " " artillery, 1,077
if % 15,305
COMPANIES PREPARING FOR SERVICE.
1 company of savuiry, 109
4 companies of artillery, 024
733
16,038
In service, 93,577
Pre paring for service., lei,ooß
Pennsylvania's contribution, 109,615
Exclusive of 20,175 three months meu now
disbanded* ■ .
The regiments preparing for servioe are iu
ocmplete. Those rtm may nut be filled by the
iG.fa inst. will t>c consolidated and sent fur
ward. Ot the legitu-uts iu service, tha lltn
aud 15th regiments of Infantry are at Anoap
oris; toe 28 n, 29 b, 2Lr, 66.h, 69t0, 71st.
72ad, and 106 th, regiment* and uuu company
of infantry arc iu the command oi Msjor bii-L.
Bank-; the-lo b, 50d, 55th, 76.ir aoc 100.h
regiiujnu ot infantry are iu South Uaroitua;
the 48th iufantry are at ilatteras iuiet; tbe
108iu Infantry and llib Cavalry are at Fort
ress Monroe) the 77tu, 78th aud 79,a Infautry,
the 7th uud 9tu eavaity. one troop of home,
oue squadron of cavalry, two batialiiuns of
artillery are in Kentucky; the 84'.ii aud 110;tj
iufantry are in Western Virginia, as are also
three companies of lufantry, four companies ol
cavalry, five companies oi light artillery; the 87 '
io.autiy are at Cuokoysviiie, in Maryland; one '
Company of ..rtiiiery is at Fort Delaware; uli
tne remainder of the volunteers arc JI or near
VV asuiugt en. Upwards of 300 volunteers
from Pennsylvania are now prisoners, but as
artaug meuts have hovAr made lor the txjuauge
of prist.utis it cii*y be expected that they will
soon be released.
Iu compliance with the joint resolutions of
the 16.u of May last, 1 h,.ve procured regi
mental flags for tt.e Peuuiyivauia voiuoteers,
and have presented them in person to m >st of
the regiments. Iu oilier cases, the regitu, uts
being ou or near the Potomac, r have n quest*
ed Mr. Gowau, Senator, and Messrs. Grow and
YV ngi.t members of the House of Represen
tatives, from Pennsylvania, to preseut them in
the name oi the Common Wealth.
The General GotutiUHiatrtquetted that the
States thuuid abstain trorn purchasing arms, as
their competition Mas found injurious iu the
market, aud iu view of the large expenditures
of money in arming aud equipping the volun
teer force of the State, providad~for the de
fence of the Rational Government, I did not
purchase any as authorized by tae. ilSth sec
tion of the aat of the Isth of May, 1801. The
Statu has now quite as many arms as are nes
ccssary to arm all her volunteer organizations
in existeaoe; hut, influenced by the threateu
iug aspect of our relations with foreign gov
ernments, 1 have directed the Adjutant Gener
al to procure arms as soou as it can be done
! on reasonable terms and without injurious com
petition with the National Government. Arms
have beeu distiibuted auiuug tku border coun
ties to all the organizations that have been
formed to receive theui. 1930 arms have beeu
thus distributed, i have also addressed a let
ter to the commissioners of ail the border
couuties, offering arms to them as soon as tail,
itary orgaizatiotis shall be formed to receive
them. Besides thus complying with the re
quirements of the 27 th seoiiou of the Act ot
loth May last, 1 have deemed it prudent to
off-r five thousand arms to such military or"
gauizatious as may be formed in Philadelphia
on a pliio to be appro ved by me as Commander
in-Chief. Muskets and rifles to a considerable
extent have been furnished to the Pennsylva
nia volunteers Ironi the State arsenal. Others
have beeu sent by the United Stales authori
ties to arm them before leaving the State. In
some cases regiments have gone without arms
under assurances from the War department
that they wou.d he urrned at Washing tun or
other uoar designated poiuts, and tut their
immediate departure was required, it was
thought wise in these cases not to iusist on the
arms beiug .-eot before the regiments marched,
as this woulu have imposed on the government
an unutceasary expense iu freight, and would
have been productive ot dciays which ought
have been seriously detrimental to ilie punite
service, ijorty-two pieces of artillery with
limbers, caissons, forges, ammunition wagous,
haruess aud ml the ueces.-aty iuipluiueuts and
equipments were furaiahad t>y the State to the
aruliery regiment of ibu litaerve Corps. Ten
of these wero furnished by the State,and their
cost has beeu refuuded ly the United States.
Diligence lus been used iu collecting aims
throughout the State and repairiug uud alter
ing them in the most unproved uuoutr.
VQL. 35. M 3.
'J be Stite has now
62 pui.-cs of artillery, of which 17 need
repairs,
26,753 muskets and rifle*, somo of which are
in the hands of mechanics being re
paired, 1910 are in the hands of vol
uo e*r corps throughout the State;
1930 in the possession of County Com
missioners, and 1,000 with tha reserve
corps of Philadelphia. •
In addition to this tha city of Philadelphia
9 pieces of rifled artillery, and
4.976 muskets ami rifles.
1 he citttte has also in the arsenal at Harris*
burg
1 966 sabres and swords, and
1,957 pistols; and the city of Phil*, has
440 sabres, and
026 pistols with the necessary accoutre
ments.
1 here is also in the Arsenal at Harrisburg
a large amount of accoutrements and ammuni
tion tor artillery and small arms.
rile Adjutant General is successfully en
gaged in collecting arms throughout the State,
and it is expected that the number above stat
ed wiil bo largely increased. Probably, at
•a .st, 5, £ 00 muskets and rifles and several
pieces of artillery will s ill be ooilected.
Ine one vwiiuh has beea bestowed upon the
comfort of the volunteers, and the goodness
and siilficieuey of tbeir supplies Of ail kinds,
and ma excellent arrangements of the Medical
Deym tuieut under the control of Surgeon Gen
eral Henry 11. Smith, are proved by the fact
tDtt more than 6U,000 men have been for va*
nous, geuerdly short peri- .Is at Gamp Curtiu
since toe 19th of April last, and that down to
ihe Ist -January iust. taere died but fortv-ni> i
meu at thai camp, viz., forty-four from ,fck
ueoa, two (belonging to regiments horn oth r
iiatee,) who had been injured ou railroads, two
accidentally killed in Camp Curiin and on*
shot in llai i isourg.
To iaeiiiuie the making of allotments of
their puy by our voiuntcors in the held for the
support tu ♦tour families at home,! appointed
*l°"' %wau, Xaouias JB. Franklin and
U. HuioaaTpLl ti,., commissioners tD'Vwii the
camps ot oar men on and south of th§_ Poto
mac, and also James Park and M. VV.Beltz
h'jovei, iu-qs., - comaiis-ioners to vi*it tbo
camps of our men iu Kentucky and elsewhere
in the western country, to calf the attention of
the troops io the system of allot meat and to
encourage them iu adopting a practical piaa
for carrying it into efLct.
Abe several reports of these commissioners
are highly satisfactory.
For details oa the several subjects connec*
ed with the military operations of th ; s StHte, ;
1 refer to the reports of the A -jutant General,
Surgeon General, Quarter Masier General,
Commissary General and Paymaster General
which accompany ibis .Message.
The duties imposed oa tue wero so onerous
that I touni it necessary to invite the temporary
assistance of gentlemen oa my staff to aid ma
lo perfo-m them.
In this oup'.oily, Cols. Tboma* A. Soott,
Gideoo J Sail, and John A Wright contrbuted
thtir valuable services from the middle of April
until *bey were called away by other duties.
Go). Scott remained until he became oonnect
ed wish the War Department, Col- Ball ntitil
the Ist of June and Col. Wright uuiil the 23d
of July; for the time thus devoted to tbe ecr
vieo of the Stare they have iefused to receive
any compensation.
Cols. Joseph D. Potts, A. L. Russell, J.
Brown Parker and Craig Biddle were in ser
vice op to the 20th of December. Tbe De
partment of Telegraph aud Transportation waa
under the exolusive control of Col. Potts. The
system and economy of its mangement show
how faithfully and well he fulfilled his office.
It is but just to all these gentlemen that I
should bear testimony to ibe untiring zeal and
fidelity with which their duties were perform
ed.
The quota of the State having been more
tbau filled, and her military foroe organized, I
was enabled on the 20tb of Deo. last, to dis
pense with a persoual staff, aud the tempora
ry arrangement which had been made for its
employment was then closed.
By the 13'b section of the Act of the 15th
of May, 1361,1 was authorized to draw my
warrants on the Treasury for a sum not ex
ccecdiug $20,000 for compensation to such
persona as might be required to servo the coun
try in a military capacity, &o. Or this fund
1 have drawn from the Treasury $8,500, out
of which I paid tbe compensation of my per
sonal staff, also other expenses of the military
departmeut, and tbe actual expenses of persons
employed on temporary lervioe, neoe of whom
received any further compensation, and expen
ses of the eommissioos appointed to investi
gate alleged frauds, &e , and the expenses of
establishing military patrols on the Maryland
line *nd five hundred dollars on secret service.
My account is settled in the iffioa of the Au
ditor Gen -ral up to tbe Ist of December. On
that day 1 had expended $6,400, and except
seme inconsiderable payments made since, she
balance remains in my hands.
1 he report of the Auditor General will ex
hibit the '.turns of the account.
An account ot military expenditures by tho
Siate un behalf of ihe United States, as far
as the same bad then Leeu aseeitaiuod uud
settled by the accounting department here,
w.,8 nr.do up to the first day of Sepiember,
1861, aud presented on the 12th of that month
ut the Tita,.ury Dep-aituieut of the Unite#!
States for settlement and allowance. The
sum of $006,000, has bctu received from the
Treasury lbpuitmrnt on that account. The
repayment by iho General Government of the'
expenses attending the organization ami sup
poit of the Reserve Corps, may not be piu
ttded tor by suy of Congress.