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HUNTINGDON, PA.
Friday, ,fanuary 9, 1863,
1 C 4 (g ?
NOTICE.
'We Laco not the time nor the inch
pation, to dun personally-, a large num
ber of persons who have unsettled ac
counts upon our books of several years
btancling. We shall, therefore, from
day to day, without respect to persons,
yplac•e into the hands of a Justice for
collection, all acconnts of over two
Tears standing. -111 those who wish
to save expense, will do well to give
is a call
tzkkkik i‘k
MOTHER ! CAN I GO ?
-0-
[A lad from Connecticut, employed
in New York city, wrote home for his
mother's permission to enlist in the
strife for Liberty and Union. He ib
now with Burnside.]
I am writing to you. - ll.othcr I knowing
well what you will say,
When you read with tearful fondness
all I write to you to-day,
Knowing well the flame of ardor on a
loyal mother's part ,
'That will kindle with each impulse,
with each throbbing of your heart.
I have heard my country calling for
her sons that still are true—
I have loved that country, Mother I
only next to God and you;
And my Soul is springing forward to
resist her bitter foe— -
Can I go, my dearest mother ? tell me,
Mother, con I go?
From the battered walls of Sumpter,
from the wild waves of the sea,
I have heard her cries of succor as the
voice of God to me.
In prosperity I loved her—in her days
of dark distress,
With your spirit in me, Mother ! could
I love that country less?
They have pierced her heart with_trea
son, they've caused her sons to bleed,
r.,rbey have robbed her in her kindness,
'they have triumphed in her need;
'hey have trampled on her standard,
and she..oalls me in her woe;
,Can I go, my dearest mother? tell me,
Mother, can I ?
I am young and slender, mother ! they
would call me yet a boy,
:But I know the land I live in, and the
blessings I enjoy.
I am old enough, my mother! to be
loyal, proud and true,
To the faithful sense of duty I have
ever learned from you.
must conquer this rebellion; let
the doubting heart, be still.
We•must conquer it, or perish. We
must conquer, and we will !
But the faithful must not falter, and
shall Ibe wanting? :co!
Bid me go, my de'arest mother! tell me,
Mother, can I go?
lie who led His chosen people, in their
effort to be free
!From thd tyranny of Egypt, will be
merciful to me;
protect me by llis power, what
so'cr I undertake,
And return me home in safety, dearest
Mother ! fur your sake..
Or, should this, my bleeding country,
need a victim such as me,
I am nothing more than others who
Lave perished to be free.
On her bosom let me slumber, on her
altar let me lie—
I am not afraid, my mother! in so
good a cause to (lie.
There «•ill come a day of gladness,
when the people of the Lord
Shall look proudly on their banner,
which His mercy has restored;
When the stars in perfect number, on
their azure field of blue,
Shall be clustered in a Union, then
and ever firm and true.
mar live to see it, Mother ! when the
patriot's worlt is done,
And your heart, sp full of ltindness,
willitheat proudly for your son,
Or through tears your eyes may see it
with a sadly thoughtful view,
And may love it still more dearly for
the cost it won from you.
- „t have written to you, Mother, with a
consciousness of right—
I am thinking of you fondly, with a
loyal heart to-night.
AV hen I have your noble bidding, which
shall tell we to press on,
I will conic and see you mother come
and kiss you and begone.
In the sacred name of Freedom, and
my country as her due—
In the name of Law, of Justice, I have
written this to you.
I am eager, anxious, longing to resist
my country's foe;
Shall I go, my dearest mother? tell me,
Mother, shall I go ?
"Go, my Boy, where Duty calls You."
AN ANSWER TO " 310THER ! CAN I GO."
Go, my boy, and Heaven bless youl—
have read each precious line,
Of your heart's responsive throbbings
to a Higher Call than mile.
God bath spoken—youhave heard Him
—and tho' tears these eyes bedim,
Yoltr affection for your mother shall
not mar'your love for Him.
Could I bid you stay froni toothless,
`when the ever-ruling IL•ind
111
WILLIAM LEWIS, Editor and Proprietor
VOL, X VIII,
:Nlarks your path to duty clearly for
the safety of your land ?
No! 'Lis yours to be a patriot, and 'tis
mine to prove as true;
Go, my boy, where duty calls you, and
my heart shall follow you!
Go in faith, and feel protection in a
Power Supreme, Divine ;
Should a bullet pierce your body, it
will also enter mine.
Do I think of this in sorrow? Does
my love sad fears renew ?
Do I tremble at the prospect? No,
my son ; no more than you.
Dear to me is every pathway where
your precious feet have trod; .
But I give you fondly, freely, to my
COW try and my God.
You and I shall never faller• in the
work we have to do ;
Go, my boy, where duty calls you, and
my heart shall follow you!
I shall pray for you—how often ! with
the waking hour of morn,
Through the labors of my household,
and when night is coining on.
If a mother's prayers can keep you
'mid the dangers you incur,
God will surely bring you back again
to happiness anti her.
I will never tonbt the goodlioss that
has kept you until now,
That has kept the evil from your heart,
the shadow from your brow;
Anti I know that it shall keep you in
the path you most pursue;
Go, my boy, where duty calls you, and
my heart shall follow you!
If my boy were less a hero, less the
man in thought and deed,
I had less to give my country in her
trying hOur of need;
And I feel a pride in knowing that to
serve this cause divine,
From no hearth-stone_ goes a braver
heart than thaeiv : hich goes from mine.
I have loved you from the hour that
my lips first pressed your brow,
Ever tenderly, but never quite as ten
derly as now.
All I have is Ms who gave it, whatso-
e'er lle bids me do; -
Go, my boy, where duty calls you, and
my heart shall follow you I
1 .shall miss you through the spring
time, when the orchard is in bloom,
When the smiling face of Nature
bathes its beauty in perfume;
When the birds are sweetly singing by
the door and on the wing,
I shall think of you who always loved
to pause and hear them sing.
Lung accm--titswaning hours
through the drowsy summer day,
With my boy exposed to dangers on a
soil so far away.
But my spirit shall not murmur, tho'
a tear bedim my view;
Go, my boy, where duty calls you, and
my heart shall follow you !
You will come and sec your mother,
conic and hiss her, as you say,
From lice lips receive the blessing that
shall cheer you on your way ;
From her fond embrace go forward to
resist your country's foe,
With the comforting assurance that
your mother bade you go.
Heaven protect, and bless and keep
you! holy angels guard your way,
Keep your spirit from temptation, and
your feet from going astray.
To your mother ever faithful, to your
country ever true—
Go, my boy, where duty calls you, and
my heart shall follow you!
EMANCIPATION IN LOUISIANA
PROCLAMATION OP MAJOR GEN.
BANKS.
To the People of Louisiana.
Headquarters Department of the Gulf,}
:Yew Orleans, Dec. 24, 18G2.
In order to correct public misap
prehension and misrepresentation, for
the instruction of the troops of this
Department, and the information of
all parties in interest, official publica
tion is herewith made of the Prochl
illation by the President of the United
States, relating to the subject of eman
cipation. In the examination of this
'affzumemt it will be observed :
z. That it is the declaration of a
purpose only—the full execution of
which is contingent upon an official
designation by the President, to be
made on the first day of „January next,
ref the, States and parts of States, if
any, which are to be effected by its
provisions :
11. That the fact that any State is
represented in good faith in the Con
gres's of the United States, is conclu
sive evidence, in the absence of strong
countervailing testimony, that such
State and the people thereof, are not
in rebellion against the United States :
111. That the State of Louisiana has
not yet been designated by the Presi
dent as in rebellion, nor any part
thereof, and that it has complied with
all the conditions of the proclamation
respecting the representation :
IT. That pecuniary aid to States
not in rebellion, which may hereafter
provide for immediate or gradual
emancipation ; the colonization of per
sons of African descent elsewhere, and
the compensation of all citizens who
have remained loyal, "for all losses by
acts of the United States, including
slaves," are among the chief recom
mendations of this important paper.
It is manifest that the changes sug
gested therein, and which may here
after be established, do not take effect
within the State on the first clay of
January pros., nor at any precise pe
riod which can now be designated, and
T call upon all persons of whatever es
tate, condition or degree, soldiers, citi
zens or slaves, to off: erre this materi
al and important fact, and to govern
themselves accordingly, All unusual
public demonstrations, of whatever
character, will be for the present sus-
pended. Provost Marshals, officers
and soldiers, are enjoined to prevent
any disturbance of the public peace.—
The slaves are 011 . 10111011 to remain up
on their plantations until their privi
leges shall have been definitely estab
lished. They may rest assured that
whatever benefit the llovernment in
tends, will be secured to them, but no
man can be allowed, in the present
condition of affairs Lo take the law in
to his own bands. If they seek the
protection of the Government, they
should wait its pleasure. Officers in
vested with command will be vigilant
in the discharge of their duties.—
Leave of absence from camp will not
be permitted, except in cases of great
emergency. Soldiers enrolled in the
Regiments of Native Guards will not
be allowed for the present to visit the
localities of their enlistment, nor will
visitors be received unnecessarily in
their camps. These regulations, en
forced with all the troops of the Uni
ted States in the localities where they
arc enlisted, are now imperatively ne
cessary. These troops will be confin
ed to the ditty specified in genecal or
ders, and will not be charged with
special authority in making searches,
seizures or arrests. It is my purpose
to execute fitithfully all the orders of
the Government, and I assume the re
sponsibility of these instructions as
consistent therewith, and require
prompt and faithful execution thereof.
Public attention is called to the act
of Congress cited in the Proclamation,
which forbids the return of fugitives
by . officers of the army. No encour
agement will be given to laborers to
desert their employers, but no author-
ity exists to compel them to return.—
It is suggested to planters that some •
plan be adopted by which an equita
ble proportion of the proceeds of the
crops of the coming year, to be here
after determined upon the judgment
of honorable men justly representing
the different interests involved, be set
apart and reserved for the support
and compensation of labor.
The war is not waged by the Cow
ernmeat for the overthrow of sla'very.
The President has declared, on the
contrary, that it is to restore the " con
stitutional relations between the Uni
ted States and each of the States" in
which that relation is or may be sus
pended. The resolutions passed by
Congress, before the war, with almost
unanimous consent, reco,cnized the
rights of the States in this regard.—
Vermont has recently repealed the
statutes supposed to be inconsistent
therewith. Massachusetts had done
so before. Slavery existed by consent
and constitutional guarantee: Vio
lence and war will inevitably bring it
to an end. It is impossible that any
military man, in the event of contin
ued war, should counsel the preserva
tion of slave property in the rebel
States. If' it is to be preserved, war
must cease, and the former constitu
tional relations be again established.
The first gun at Sumpter proclaim
ed emancipation. The conthmanee of
the eon test there commenced will eon
! summate that end, and the history of
the age will leave no other permanent
trace of the rebellion. its leaders will
have accomplished what other men
could not have done. The boldest ab
olitionist is a cipher when compared
with the leaders of the rebellion. What
mystery pervades the works of Provi
dence We submit to its decrees, but
stand confounded at the awful mani
festations of its wisdom and power !
The great problem of the age, appa
rently environed, with labyrinthic
complications, is likely to be suddenly
lifted out of human hands. We may
control the incidents of the contest, but
we cannot circumvent or defeat the
end. It will be left us only to assuage
the horrors of internecine conflict,
and to procrastinate the process of
transition. Local and national inter
ests are therefore alike dependent up
on the suppression of the rebellion.
No pecuniary sacrifice can be too
great an equivalent for peace. But it
should be permanent peace, and em
brace-all subjects of' discontent. It is
written on the blue arch above us—
the distatit voices of the future—the •
waves that beat our eoast—the shl3-
tons that sit at our tables and fill the
vacant places of desolate and mourn
ing firesides =all cry out that this war I
must not be repeated hereafter.
Contest, in public as in social life, I
strengthens and consolidates brotherly
affection. England. France, Austria,
Italy—every land fertile enough to
make a history, has had its desolating
civil wars. It is baseless nationality
that has not tested its strength against
diimestie enemies. The success of lo
cal interests narrows the destiny of a
people, and it is followed by secession,
poverty and degradation. A divided
country and a perpetual war make
possession a delusion and life a calami
ty. The triumph of national interests
widens the scope of human history,
and is itttended with peace, prosperity
and lifter. It is out of such contests
that great nations are born.
What hallowed memories float
around us! New Orleans is a shrine
as sacred as Bunker Bill I On the
Aroostook and the Oregon the names
of Washington, Jackson and Taylor
are breathed with as deep a reverence
as on the James or the Mississippi.—
Let us fulfil the conditions of this last
great trial, and become a nation—a
grand nation—with sense enough to
govern ourselves and strength enough
to stand against the world united !
N. P. BANKS,
Major-General Commanding.
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proved styles—just received and for
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HUNTINGDON, PA., *WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1863
-PERSEVERE.-
ANNUAL MESSAGE
MEM
GOVERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA
READ JAN - Li - ARA' 7,1863
To the Senate and house of Reprenenta
tires of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
Mil :
GENTLEMEN—Notwithstanding the
pressure of public calamity which has
weighed heavily on the country during
the past year, it has pleased Divine
Providence not only to enable the peo
ple of Pennsylvania to perform in full
all their duties to our common govern
ment, but to give to this commonwealth
domestic peace, plenty and prosperity.
The balance in
Treasury, Nov.
30, 1801, was . $1,551,605 72
lleoeipts during
fiscal year end
ing Nov. 30th,
1801, were as
follows :
Ordinary 50urce5.54,047,522
per cent. loan
act Mayls, 'Bl, 387,850 00
num various
banks as an e
quivalent fu r
coin the payrn't
of int. on the
Public debt . 140,708 30
Refunded cash,
military 29,50 42
United States Go
vernment • . . 805,740 52 5,211,747 03
Total into treasu
ry for fiscal
y ear ending
Nov, 30, 1861 .
And the pa y
meets hare been
as follows;
For ordinary
.pur
poses . . .0,033,110 06
Paid on state inte
rest as an equiv
alent for coin . 146,631 22
Military expenses
act April 12, '6l 7 62
Military expenses,
act May 15, '6l 1,217 26
Military expenses,
act April 16, '62 20,607 04
Military pensions,
act May 15, '6l 400 54
Commiydoners of
Sinking Fund . 427,881 51
Ilmnestie creditors 105 32
Tempoiaiy Loan
redeemed . . 100,000 00
United States Go
vernment direct
tax
350,000 00 -1,590,509 25
Leaving balance
i n T,edmry,
Nov. :10,180'2 °,112,84410;:i
or 11 Mel: amount one humir6il 'and - nincty-five
thousand five hundred and seventy-six dollars
and twenty-seven cents is the balance of um
expended military loan, as follows:
Balance of said
fund N0v30,'61. 300,507 41
Receipts und er
act May 15, 'Ol 387,850 00
Pala f n • military
expenses ns
shave. . .
482,781 14
Paid for retlemp
tion tempura
ry loans .
100,000 00
Receipts fiom ordinary sources:
For year ending Nov. 30, 1562.54,047,822 39
1361. 3,017,645 57
Excess of receipts for 1862...81,030,170 82
Payments for ordinary purposes, excepting
intmest:
For year ending Nov. 30, 1861.51,118,662 93
1862. 1,023,345 77
Decrease in expenditures of '62.$ 95,317 16
Prom the tables exhibited it will ap
pear that the receipts from ordinary
sources of revenue for the year 1862,
are in excess of the receipts of the year
1861 one million thirty thousand Ono
hundred and seventy-six dollars and
eighty-two cents, (the excess of inter
est paid in 1862 over that in 1861 be
ing 814 1,095 37;) and that the ordin
ary expenditures for 1862 were ninety
five thousand three hundred and seven
teen dollars and sixteen cents less than
the year previous.
The healthy condition of the reve
nues, and the excess of the receipts
over the expenditures, secured by the
etonomy which has been prac
ticed, (especially considering the ne
cessary increase of taxation by the
National Government.) seem to invite
the attention of the Legislature to a
revision of the revenue laws, with a
view to lightening the burthens of the
people. In this connection it is proper
to invite your attention to the justice
and expediency of restricting the rate
of local taxation, now, in some parts of
the State, oppressive.
Amouutof public
debt of Penn-
sylvania, as it
stoodon theist
day of Deo. '6l $40,580,666 08
Additional ant
received at the
State Treasury
during the fis-
cal yearending
Nov. 30, 1862,
on Military
Loan, author
ized per act of
May 13,1861 . 387,850 00
Deduct amount
redeemed at the
Btate Treasury
during the •fis
cal year ending
Nov 30,'62,viz;
5 per cent. State
stocks . . .8268,800 40
41 per cent. State
stocks . . .
4 per cent. State
stocks . . . 100,000 00
Int'st certificates 17 25
Belief notes . . 1,411 00
Domestic credit
or's certificates 64 52
Military Loan,
per act of A
pril 12, 1861,
redeemed . . 100,000 00
--$ 520,302 26
50,000 00
ki
4te yam.,.. ..
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Public debt, Dec.
1, 13G2 . . :i440,448,213 82
Towards the extinguishment of the
public debt, the Sinking Fund holds
securities amounting to ten millions
seven hundred and eighty-one thousand
dollars, as follows :
Bonds of Sunbury and Erie
Railroad Company . . 0,500,000
Bonds of Pennsylvania
Railroad Company . . 7,000,000
Bonds of Wyoming Canal
Company
810,781,000
Should there be no extraordinary
demand bn the Treasury, there can be
appropriated from the large balance
now on hand and the increasing reve
nues, at least a million and a half of
dollars during the coming year to
wards the payment of the public debt.
The operations of the Sinking Fund
during the last year have been, as
shown by my Proclamation of the Bth
of §eptember last, as follows:
Amount of debt of Common-
wealth reduced . . . . $202,801 07
As follows, viz:
State loans . . $261,178 74
Interest certificates 370 41
Domestic creditor's
certificates . . 04 52
Relief notes can
celled . . . 11 88
—5202,801 07
11 will be observed that the fiscal
year ends on the 30th of November,
and the Sinking Fund year on the first
Monday of September. This is the
reason for the apparent deficiency in
the amount of debt paid as stated in
the Treasurer's Report and by the
Commissioners of the Sisiking Fund.
Under the act of 11th of.A.pril, 1862,
I appointed William McClelland, It.
B. McCombs and M. Russell Thayer
Esqs., as Revenue Commissioners, who
have printed a report, and will no
doubt submit the result of their labors
to the Legislature, to which I invite
attention.
$0,763,353 35
refer to the reports of the State
Treasurer and Audi tor General for the
details of the financial affairs of the
Commonwealth. The reports of the
Surveyor-General, Superintendent of
Common Schools, and State Librarian
eNhibit the state of the depart
ments under their care.
In accordance with the Act of 10th
February, 1562, the quota of this
State of the direct tax of the United
States, amounting to one million nine
hundred and forty-six thousand seven
hundred and nineteen dollars and thir
ty-three cents, was, on the 14th June,
1862, paid to the United StateS, part
ly by a relinquishment of a portion of
the sums claimed by this State from
the Government, and partly in cash,
after deducting the 15 per cent. allow
ed by the act of Congress for prompt
payment. Pennsylvania thuspaid her
quota of the direct tax befbre any oth
er State, There is still due to the
State, principally for advances since
made for transportation and equip
ments of volunteers, about three hund
red thousand dollars.
775,3.57 •11
532,751 14
On the 20th of February last, I is
sued my warrant authorizing the
State Treasurer to deliver to the Phil
adelphia and Erie Ihtilroad Company
one thousand of the bonds deposited
with the State in conformity with the
Act of May 7, 1861. On tho 20th of
November I issued a similar warrant.
Both warrants were granted after re
ceiving reports from John A. Wright,
Esq., the commissioner appointed for
the purpose, that the proceeds of the
bonds previously issued had been ap
propriated in accordance with the pro
visions of the law. The company has
now received three of the five millions
of bonds deposited in the State Treas
ury. With the proceeds of the bonds
issued, fifty-two miles of road have
been completed, making, with what
had formerly boon finished, a total of
one hundred and ninety-nine miles,
leaving eighty-nine miles unfinished,
of which, nearly all is graded and rea
dy for the iron. The bonds still in the
Treasury will yield an amount ample
to complete the road, and thus open
this important route of trade and com
merce. `Flit': t.l'Ve!Opment of the vast
mineral and other rusinina Of Our
north-western counties by this means,
will undoubtedly in a few years ren
der valuable the securities of the Sun
bury and Eric Railroad Company, now
forming part of the Sinking Fund of
the Commonwealth.
The interest on the State debt was
paid in August last in specie or its
equivalent, in conformity with the ex
isting law, at the cost of one hundred
and forty-six thousand six hundred
and thirty-one dollars and twenty-two
cents for the difference between specie
and paper currency, of which the banks
under the provisions of the act of 11th
April, ISO 2, have already refunded to
the State one hundred and forty thous
and seven hundred and sixty-eight dol
lars and thirty cents.
This burden on the banks has be
come heavier than in my judgment
ought to be borne by any special inter
est.
$195,370 27
Unless the Legislature should oth
erwise provide, it will be the duty of
the State Treasurer to pay in like
manner the interest which will fall duo
hereafter. We should all be careful
not to violate the fiuth or impair the
credit of the Commonwealth. The se
rious and early consideration of the
Legislature is invited to the whole
subject.
In my opinion there are already
more incorporated banks in the Com
monwealth than are at present re
quired for the public convenience, and
I therefore recommend that no more
shall be incorporated.
On the 7th of July last, a call was
made by the President for three hun
dred thousand volunteers. This State
t had already supplied nearly one hun
t
dyed and ten thousand men, yet her
540,068,516 08
TERMS, $1,50 a year in advance.
people promptly bestirred themselves
to respond to this new requirement.—
Although it was believed that no boun
ties would be necessary to induce the
men of Pennsylvania to enter the ser
vice of their country on such an occa
sion, yet as some of the neighboring
States offered large bounties, it was
thought not right to expose our citi
zens to the temptation thus afforded
to them to enlist in regiments of other
States. There being no appropriation
for the payment of bounties, I, of
course, could not direct them to be
paid'out of the treasury, and it was
evident that to call the Legislature to
gether and wait for the negotiation of
any loan which might be authorized
for the purpose, would be attended by
injurious delay. Under these circum
stances:l confidently appealed by proc
lamation to a people who have never
faltered in the performance of any du
ty of patriotism, calling on them to
raise in their several counties, the
sums necessary to insure their pro
portion of the quota of the State. This
appeal was effectually answered. Pub
lic meetings were held; and liberal
amounts subscribed by individuals.—
In the city of Philadelphia, besides a
very large fund thus raised, the mu
nicipal authorities contributed heavily
from their common treasury, and in
several counties the county commis
sioners, generally under the guarantee
of a few of their eminent citizens, de
voted county funds to the same pur
pose. I recommend that these pro
ceedings be legalized, and submit to
the wisdom of the Legislature the ques
tion of what legislation would be just
and proper on the whole subject that
the burden of this patriotic effort may
fidl equally on all classes of people
throughout the State.
281,000
The result of this manifestation of
public spirit was that thirty-eight new
regiments and three unattached com
panies of infantry were raised; four
other regiments, which, previous to
this call, had been authorized by the
War Department to be raise(' are still
in progress of organization. •
On special requisitions from the War
Department there have been raised
and are now in service five additional
regiments, and three companies of env
airy, two batteries of heavy artillery,
and ono battery of light artillery. A
battalion of heavy artillery is being
raised by Maj. Joseph Roberts, U. S. A.,
with my assent, also under special au
thority of the War Department.
Early in September last the rebel
army crossed the Potomac into Mary
land, with the design of invading this
State. On the 4th of that month I
called upon the people by Proclamation
to organize into companies and hold
themselves in readiness to be ordered
into actual service for the defence of
the State. And on the 11th of that
month, under authority of the Presi
dent, I issued orders for fifty thousand
volunteer Militia, to rendezvous at
Harrisburg, for the defence of the State.
This call was promptly responded to,
and a large force was sent fbrward to
the Cumberland Valley and its vicinity.
The first part of this fore°, consisting
of one regiment and eight companies
of infantry, moved from Harrisburg on
the night of the 12th of September, and
were followed by other regiments as
rapidly as they could be organized and
transportation provided. The com
mand of the whole force was taken by
Brigadier General John F. Reynolds,
who left his corps in the Army of the
Potomac at my urgent request, and
hurried to the defence of his native
State, for which he is entitled to the
thanks of the Commonwealth. Fif
teen thousand of the Volunteer Militia
were pushed forward to Hagers'town
and Boonshoro', in the State of Mary
land; ten thousand were posted in the
vicinity of Greencastle and Chambers
burg; and about twenty-five thousand
were at Harrisburg, on their way to
Harrisburg, or in readiness and wait
ing for transportation to proceed thith
er. One regiment, at the request of
Gen. Halleck, was sent to protect Du
pont's Powder Mills, in the State of
Delaware. On the 24th of September
the Volunteer Militia were discharged
by me from serviCe, having by their
spirited demonstration greatly aided
in preventing the intended invasion of
this State by the rebels, and in com
pelling their sudden evacuation of the
portion of Maryland which they had
polluted. For these services, the thanks
of the Governor of Maryland and of
the Commander of the Army of the
Potomac were rendered to our patri
otic troops through me. Measures
have been taken to, procure payment
in full of these troops, and of the ex
penses attendine their services, by the
United States, in accordance with the
terms of the call by the President.—
A large portion of the amount has al
ready been paid. Having accompa
nied this force to Hagerstown, I am
enabled to speak of the courage, fideli
ty and cheerfulness with which the
men suffered unaccustomed privations,
and bore the fire of the rebel force,
performing with alacrity all the ser
vice that was required of them. •
On Aug. 4th last, a draft of three
hundred thousand militia, to serve for
nine months, was ordered by the Pres
ident under the act of Congress of 17th
of July, 1862, and regulations were
made by his authority in pursuance of
that act, under which regulations the
enrolment and draft were conducted
in this State, our militia laws being
found to be defective. Several coun
ties and districts having already sup
plied by volunteers their portion of
the quota of the State, were exemp
ted from the draft, and time was giv
en to enable others to raise the re
quired number of men by voluntary,
enlistments. The draft was generally
proceeded with throughout the State
on the 16111 day of October last, and
the drafted men were directed to be
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placed in the several camps of rendez
vous established under the regulations,
where they were organized and elec
ted their officers, and have since gong
forward to the army in the field. The
draft was eminently successful; when.
the men had been marched to the ren
dezvous, my agency in the mattei:
ceased, and all authority and control
over the men devolved on the United
States officers. I cannot but commend
the people of Pennsylvania for their
cheerful obedience to the requirements
of the Government on this occasion. =
All the expenses of the draft are, of
course, to be paid by the United States,
and I learn that officers are now in
the State charged with the settlements,
and payments.
Including the three months' volun
teers, Pennsylvania has furnished to
the general government, more than
two hundred thousand men sine 6 the
breaking out of the rebellion, besides
some fifty thousand who were in ser
vice, or actually ready for it, as volun
teer militia, under the call of 11th of
September last, making, in the whole,
more than two hundred and fifty thou=
sand men.
In October last, a body of rebel cav !
airy with a battery of artillery, Bud !
denly crossed the Potomac and made
their way' as far as Chambcrsburg,
plunderinc , what they found pf sup
plies useful to them and 'committing
other depredations. They went out
of the State by crossing the Sou - al
Mountain, and thus reaching the Po
tomac below Harper's Ferry. The
troops in the field Ivere not prepared
at the moment to punish this • attempt
on her soil, and it is to be much re
gretted that efficient measures could
not have been taken by the army to
capture the rebels on their return tq
the Potomac. Immediately after I re
ceived notice that this force had ores !
sed the line of the State, I called intq
service the Anderson Cavalry, then
encamped at Carlisle, and two compa
nies of Regulars at the Barracks at
that place. These troops Were pushed
forward in the direction of Chambers
burg and South Mountain. The cav
alry at Camp Curtin, consisting of one
full and two imperfect regiments,
were armed as infantry, and, together
with two companies of infantry and a
battery of volunteer light artillery of
Harrisburg, were held in readiness to
go forward, when Major Gen. Wppl
arrived and assumed the command of
all the forces. Ile had previously or !
dered part of his command fFont Bab
Union and marched the troops to Get !
tysburg.
The rebels - marched with so much
celerity that they did not encounter
any of the forces of Gen. Wool, and
escaped from the State. I recom
mend that application be made to Con
gress for an appropriation to compen
sate our citizens for the damages
which they suffered by the raid, '
On the two emergencies to which I
have referred, I acknowledge valuable
counsel and assistance from Brigadier
Gen. Andrew Porter, of the U. S. Ar,
my, who thus testified his affection for
his native State, and zeal in her ser
vice when threatened. And on the
same, and other occasions, I am in
debted to Col. Thomas A. Scott, Colo.
nel Sohn A, 'Wright, and Colonel J. B.
Parker, members of my Staff, who
came promptly on my Summons, and
served with their accustomed zeal and
fidelity, without pecuniary compensa:
tion.
The militia law of this State is
greatly defective, and I earnestly re,
commend the appointment of a corn,
mission to prepare and submit an 4,
cient system, to be reported before.
the adjournment of the Legislature,
so that action may be had on the 444:
ject at the :present session. In the
hurry of ordinary business, the Legis
!attire might not be able to give the
necessary attention to the preparation
of a proper measure, and events which,
have already occurred prove the ne,
cossity of some effectual _Legislation
on the subject, so that our people mv
be adequately protected.
The State is in possession of the fol,
lowing Qrdnance, Arms and Ammuni,
tion :
63 pieces of artillery, of which 22
need repairs; 2 batteries of new can.
non, consisting of 12 Griffin rifled can.
non, 0 pounders ; 2 caissons and 2 bat
tery wagons, presented to the State by
the Committee of Safety of Philadel
phia, in September last; 26,492 mus
kets and rifles, of which 11,614 are
ready for issue, 4,460 in the hands of
mechanics for repairs, and the balance
having been used by the militia called
out in September last, require Cleaning;
12,427 setts infantry accoutrements
complete; 1,298 swords and sabres;
684 pistols; 1,938 rounds artillery am
munition; 1,522,000 rounds ammuni
tion' for small arms.
The following arms, accoutrements
and ammunition have been furnished
according to law, to the border comi
ties, and to volunteer organizations
formed under the 3!Lfilitia Act of 1858 :
5,840 muskets and rifles with accoutre,
month complete, vre issued to and
arc now in possession of border coun
ties; 4,958 muskets and rifles, and
3,041 setts of accoutrements issued to
and now in possession of organized
companies. Also 80,000 rounds of am
munition issued to border c,nnties and
organized companies; 1,755 muskets
and 895 setts of accoutrements, were
issued to Colonels Brown and Glantz's
regiments on going into tho service;
32 pieces of artillery, issued to First
Pennsylvania Artillery, Colonel Chas,
T. Camphell, commanding, on going
into the' service ; 528 sabres, 1,050 pis
tols and 528 setts of accoutrements, is
sued to organized cavalry companies.
Showing an aggregate of 107 pieces
of qrtillpry, 39,045 rifles and muskets;
1,740 pistols, 1,820 sabres, 22,203 setts
infantry - aceoutrements,s2B setts caval-
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