News Items. The ten new regiments from 'Ohio, authorized by the War Department,. will be MAIO for the field in six weeks. f of A Rebel sp with plane on h mom. viitlions. portions of the Union works, was • tpi, capfgred , near City Point. F . ? k t, —Four more of. the St. Alba udders thought, have been deteetect*Serir thefinlontsem to the national army In the recruiting camp et "-Kew Haven, Conn. Greet discoveries 01 silver have Just been made In Washington. territory. _very_ extensive .rind rich mines - bkvln been found' on- the - Western slope of the Cascade Mountains. The ore Is exerodlngly rich. yielding i ertatitailrlet,alitoutetvertiettrulr%Latamit to the to of ore. Miners arc flocking to the ground almost in crowds. , In Maine a hay prelim has been, used for the Pressillgrof pine shatinffl thrldnilting.' >They make I.e rY. l, lot; PiLesi'and pea he sawed Into blocks like timber. A bout alundiatinibeii of aliistlnge can be :AA in.f ePatsh_e&an-mtifPfrk - 4910M4Ofrul. when once preesathe spring ts - ap tagen trona { hem. —The tint °Moffat:it •Otrificaltailktaton, of New Tork..was the issuing of a proelaniation urging the people of that Slate to exert every energy to 1111 the; quota of troops reeitircd4Y"the laatsmit oftlie Pres ident so as to avoid the draft which will take place on the 11th of Februayyln itildistriets where there' maybe deffelenelm —4 private letter from the fleet off Charleston' BaYi refugees from Charleston and other ports In South. Carolina, state that all the inhabitants who. could do ad haveremovul into the country. Groat distress prevails. St-Steely any flour and 'other Del cessarlea can be obtained at any price. Sherman's eneeesA'areasions general alarm. "deters' blockade; runnels In Charleston harbor arc waiting an oppori. tangy to escape. Many , pasiengera for Nassau hays already , engaged bertha. There is little business th Charteeton, other than connected with bloek.ado. running and Ltvar Walters. --The Inauguration of Reuben E. Fenton as Gov. emu. of -New York in place of Horatio Seymour, whose official term has expired, took place at Albany on Monday. Gov. Reymour,• In receiving Gov. Fen ton, made s brief- address, setting forth the ha pervance and responsible character of the ate; to which Governor Fenton replied, expressing bin de termination to strive to-advance the Interest of the grwit State, to promote the welfare and honor of the people, :and also, to the extent of bin Executive ou t 11011$-end influence, faithfully 'maintain the national freedom and unity, and perpetuate the liberties of the people. —Geoige D. Prentice . , of The Loutsrille Journe, has . returned from a five weeks' residence in Rich mond, where he meeni to avert justicefrom lilt eon, a Nfajor In the 'Confederate Anny, who has been on rrt for murder. Prentice states that the puha. men In that city are unanimous as to the policy of freeing axe analog the slaves. Their scheme of military emancipation embraces a donation of bounty lards, and the prospect of the Ireedom of the fatallea or the slaves Who tight The friends of Rev. If. W. Beecher, et Peekskill and vicinity, who were recently edified by that gentleman's eulogy of the apple as a fruit, made him a New Tear's present of a huge apple-pi; two and a halifeet In diameter, and cooked most deliciously. —The Richmond Examiner, of Dee. 19th says: An ntinsual number of negroen absconded in the direction of the Yankee lines on Sunday night. Yes terday over a dozen cases were reported to the po llee, In one instances whole amity of negroes tak ing with them their master's horse and Wagon. It is not Improbable that some undue Influence has been brought to-bear upon the negroes, and that . their running away may be thbranalt of the mactilna, thous of secret Yankeengerrts in our midst" Thd poor. negroes see their time coming, and are not illlng to wait until the door is thrown wide open. —A private dispatch 'from a reliable source at Nlontnail States that there Is a perfect pante In Cana da among the railway managers In anticipation CPI non•intercourie with . the rutted States, which is expected unless the government takes prompt ae t ion to allay exelternent on the borders. Should the ...iteeintheity treaty he - abrogated, which IS almost r certabkaud Indeed ehauld .never have been ileg° - let• the.Arst place, the railroads or Canada will not be Worth a straw. per share.ot their stock, and will bankrupt a large potion of the present Ca nadian taillionues. PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE . . • St.VATE. The Senate was mated to order at 3 o'clock, p. to The medeatialtrof nav members were received. • The Democratic members, through Mr. Clymer,' presented -a . protest against being sworn Into ohletb by the Speaker thlr. Terrell) unlit he (the Speaker). bed been first re.eleMed to othee for 11.• IM. The Eiett‘r ate refused toallow the protest to be entered on the, reconi. The:mei:Debts elect were then sworn, and Win. .1, Torrell-was elected Speatter. Turrell made an appropriate address. 110178 E OF REPRESUNTATIVES. TCVADAX, Jan. 3, 1863. Pttrsaititt to the requirements of the Constitution,' the Molise assembled today at 12. o'clock, and was called to order by the Clerk of the Rouse. j e The Secre ts of the Commonwealth was intro demi, and p nted tfie eleetion certi fi cates of the mernbers of t , Row of Representatives. • The . -cant ed election. case of the candidates for membership from the distriet composed of the count. ties of Somerset, Bedford and Fulton elicited con. sidetable'discussiorit hut was finally decided by a majority of the -members.VOthlg In favor of the clerk staffing telhe roll or the' House" the two can didates receiving - tire Wheat rubber of votes, Mr. Moies . „l„ Rois, - ZOI Sotnerset county, and Mr. D,. B. Arbastong, of Bedford: Remarks were made on'the uh)ert: by „ Messrs. Brown, Pershing, SPClure, Sharpe and'others. , The IfcniSe — then proceeded to the election of Spliiker: , - Mt Brown nominated Mr. A G. Olmsted, of Pat tereoupty. Me.-Srtzler nominated Mr. Geo. A. Quigley, of Philadelphia. The following is the result : Arthur G. Olmsted receird GO votes. George A. Quigley reteived Mr. txtikaed tvrit m imeeived the highest number of votes cast, was declared duly elected Speaker. Ork entering. upon • the discharge Of his defiles be addrtmed - the prodse briefly. M. 'Qiigley then adtaiiii•itered the oath of Office to thelipealmr. - A'resiittrtion was offered theta committee of three bnayipotatCd to waittipon the Senate, -and inform that body that the Donee is ready to proceed to bre einem Agreed tn. Mr.-Alletaan (Dauphin) offered a resolution that a committee of these. in conjunction with a commit tee from the Senate, be authorized to wait 'upon the GOtepitor and infOrrir him that the torte: 'attire Is really to proceed fo buslues.. Agreed to. The Rouse then adjourned to meet this evening•at. ' SaVartinsat a 'Union City. ' . The litayeir'oftavarmale, at the retraest of the Al dermen and a lame number of the citizens, called a mectir.glYeeember2a.th, 1%4, to take Into conilder allon matters ppecrtaining to the present and future welfare of the city. At this meeting, ; bleb was int nimenailv atten ed, the follouirur resolutions, re ported Ej• a committee,were unanimously adopted: lf7,eroit, by the formes of war, and the surrend- Ct of the city by the ed. 711 authorttles,Savarmshlpass es Once More under the authority of the United States : and, tridrear, we believe that the interests of the city alit be best subserved and promoted by free and Lull es - pp:mien of our clews in relation to ottepresent condition, we, therefore, the People of aartuaaM, failmteling assembled, do hereby re, soli% 1 we'accert the pp<ition, and In the lan guage-of the Fresident. cif the United States, seek to bate"peace bylaring.dou'n cur arms tint submit ting _to the national authority under the leacin:- all .questions which remain,: to be adluated.by thelieacelni mm.na of legislation; .con ference anti votes." .7teltfred. th That laying aside, all ditimettem and bur)lng bygones in tiro grace of the past we Will 'use am best endeavors once more to bring back the prosperity and commerce we once enjoyed.' That We do nolput ourselves .In the positien of a conquered city asking teems et tbe con,qtrs, but we claim the Immunities and privil eges, ern:blued in the Proclamation andllessaze of the Tr. sinicat of the ',tilted States. and in all the legislation of Congrms in refereriee toa,poolda eltn-. ated AS 've are, and ;whilewe own on our part a , !Viet obedience to thehrtra of the United States,Uo nsk, our per6olll3, flees and prop erly reccemized by those laws Oohed. 4. That iverespeetfoUy reque4 Br ceJieaey Governor, to call a Convention of the poople of Georgia, by any constitutional:mans In itialsaiser. to give them an opportunity of voting upon this question, whether they wish the war,be tweetillielwrisectloniCof the obuntry litibfried, - 5.- That 314.-Gen. Seerrnan bavinglslae eartmatilltary Corlimaudered this post BilM•Genl• OsariVisbo has; bride urbanity as a gentletnan and HU uniform kindness to otrr citizens, done alt In his power 'to 'protect them and their property from ltr tett kandi.injuey,„lt. is the tusanimene dmire of all *soft ' , that Imbeallovred to remain In his present position; -and ' that-lerlbe rearm:us above Stated the Meeks of , the , sidles; ate hereby tendered tci him did theroineersiundenits etommsnif. , • • . eirfeaulesdol Tludwaviiitial copy :of these thanstweent to the President or the United states; ttareayartor et litetegis; Gese- Bhermas) , sind to' aids - Abe 4T:weer AtgAsta, Columbus' 3ditoonand 4128a1L4 4#ll44esifii) /tiog tsisVattedi l'n :" W erael trlNNTA t tgelet t rev i dta ll94s :• elirtco, otNint Ect ages' from that eiq Mety, iniboad• tided isAit. foul feet, bele:lethe rite:6C The bodirytakin" ecomplete!ttate• of tee. : serest itiri;eeet ritettrikieai had lein be Do , elittaa for zasiOrtrit* o perinpie, for egeft-, Tee ikifeObrdry,likelba* of:a tifumalty,' ktval tt is ejliltat Vim. if Laftbiet . sattrated Vita briat - atack:l iftartbettaa• attAf - Witsetaltet the - Plated 'that , aayit lab:Mr tWaraafaliicality: Parf<irittierli tkiti and a radi trchillirefotid, a*.hy, and'alaw tarde distant a' yiagit ladrlafraCeaanntam siieWere dislatered. UPriippoiltiOn tsar els calla! iall•bieh , arai +nice' dAY*,:aud - yortaded ttA *am " tuoiltkir %VW by the lets&uttxidthe, bottom; • WI weir Ikeztatatto. . fat ma Immonloweinmpom Ansi tpublitan. slit in& A Unionof States nono.can rarer; A Union of and a Union of laude, And the rag of our Union forever:7 CIRCIMATION 3,100. H. H. FRAZIER EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Montrose, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 10, 1865 rir The mu/stray is now biomes. Arninu hare ken raison, soar is levied toaceomplish it. There are old" two Licks to the question. Zen/ man twist be for the t tatted &Wes, or against it. There Call 66 pa neutrals in :his war—only patriots ashy:Rms.—STEP/IEN A. DOCOLAS, • at Chicago, Aprllll, 1661. What right has the North LLVEII fled 7 What jus tice had Urn denkett and mho: claim, founded in in,- We and right, teas been withheld? Can tither qf you to day nano one single ad of wrong, deliberately and pur posely dona by the Obeernment at waganyfon, of which the &Yeah hae a iiilld to complain ? I ehoilenye the an- Incer.—HoN. A. EL Syramtwe. 1861. TILE POSITION OF JEFF. DAVIS When the rebellion was precipitated, the lead ers wheehad devised its - plans and prepared the people of the South for Its bloody purposes, were sanguine of success. Indeed so certain were these miscreants of triumphing, that they had actually arranged what States of " the old Union" should be appropriated to their control, where they would live4lnd rule the Yankees as the petty' tyrants of the old world govern the masses under their domination. Jed. Davis en couraged this aspiration in his tools. Davis had cajoled himself with the faith that he could set up a throne in the South, which would be oc cupied by himself and a long line of his descend ants With this purpose in view, the arch-trai tor labored incessantly to connect his Dame with all the Operations of the rebellion. Tie al-' lowed no campaign to be arranged without seemingly controlling its details. He acquiesced in no expedition of a rebel gunboat, unless he was Permitted to direct its course. The rebel Congress could not move in any enactment un less he was first consulted. Thus Mr. Jefferson Davis hoped so .to identify his name with the progress of the rebellion, that at its anticipated success, -Its glory and its benefits would alone Le retlected,in himself and enjoyed by his family.— He wished not only to be regarded Bathe foment er of treason, but as the - bastion:tent wraith pro , melted alone the success of rebellion. With ' these qualities established and recognized, and rebellion a success, Davis expected to wear a crown and hold a sceptre. We are satisfied be Would have done so, had it not been for certain contingencies growing ont of the operations of the Federal army and navy. But alas for Jeff., he cannot escape his responsibility. As he was anxious to control all movements of the rebel lion in order that he might monopolize the ben efits Of its success It is now becoming apparent that his followers are forcing on Jeff . all the odi um of a Confederate failure. The Richmond papers are indulging in very rough abuse of "President Davis" They blame Jeff. for Hood's disaster and Hardee's necessities. They re proach him with having interfered with the well digested planaof the rebel army and navy °Meese, and thereby Invoked defeat on the rebel MUM. Indeed, just as Davis labored and hoped to centre in his person and cluster around his name, all the credit and glory of rebel success, so is, he now feeling all the crushing weight, odi um, disgrace, and reproach of rebel Marc. lie is now undoubtedly the most unpopular ono to the rebel Stack ,IVIO wilt doubt that this is ape of the logical-results of treason? R'HAT.A CIISIV GE Governor Help his final message to the Leg isfature of rassouri, .siesws that his sentiments have undergone a complete revolution relative to the u domestie institution." Wheti he was chosen, or rather when as Lieutenant Governor he sneeceded Gov. Gamble, he was conser vative" on the question of slavery as the rabidest owner of the "'stye' .could,./lesire. His eyes, however, have sitacf been opened-,-_ very widely opened; inasmuch that in the message referred to, he looksmpon the institution as dead—as the cause ofall'onr troubles; and counsels the Leg islature to adopt each measures aS may be nee many, , with the assistance of the Constitutional Convention, to-which the delegatee have been recently, elected, and which would shortly as semble, so ns to give it a sudden and not even n decent burial. Not a word does he say of grad ual or even compensated emancipation. He refers to the late election as the will of the peo ple on this great disturbing question, whichean not bo ignored or disregarded.-But the change is not only with Governor Hall; it Is with the masses of the people, who lusve, by their action, announced the doom of slavery without' even benefit of clergy.—Missouri, =der the ban ner of Freedom will, within ten years, become One of the Dimmest States of the talon. MTIAT EVS.A9P. PEOPLE CAN DO La a ease tried is Near-York; in which a lady-- who had been placed in the Bloomingdale asy lum by her relatives, on very sufficient grounds, sued for daniagesi one of the evidencei offered as a proof or her tionrUlneas was u plcce of poet ry, comprising' several stanzas beautifully' and and touchingly written, The defence summoned Dr. Brown, if the asylum, to show that a per son Might Is' insane, On many subjects, and yet be compeleitt to write .well. In reply to the counsel% cilm , tion on this head, Dr. B. said, " I suppose tini binit reply I can give to that quea lion is to state that Adler's German and English Dictionary, which iettsed - rtit a standard text book in the pritachisicollegia , in this country, was written in the Lluonalligdale Lunatic Asy lum, by a person of insane Mind ; L might also mentiorth iinrnber of the standard text-books which were wriiten in thatl-insiltufima; and will stace aita conclusive feet, that one 'of the iriiiiiinetvsParoM4S hlCao;l7Ork Is. principally: gifted-in the Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum, Mid the leatthai editorial is - written thrr.s or tont' tlines a weckby a plasm of unsound mind con fined'. in that institution!! -" • , ':. iiev,ants is viadtrara.- - karii has left itle, 61tertlifiNii Valley, :ad bio i imps troaKbecapy a anti pottian it Wayndebor49, VitZti4 - 94 1111 / - rl 3l NPor.tiAlf.: tat nce a Iricy mond. 04 cavalry, under Stoneman and Bar. :briNA/ 1 . 13 1*W treiiiiitertiiii - ialPttbio P4t • vaniti of Me-robels atifialtville, int was preekano. -i-' *lf rt i4;: /1116, to , *e 11 . 30 lete4 :01 4r:ierious 4 snusicuinsikialiwateri - virdiia. - 1 1 3 emwtioatonspb.rgyietly wapling, wale& ing:_ .a l 4l4i3ielotkiiithiphas - 110; "yet Paie;l4l new Datiorrebet earth *prim haveTistbeen re -1 gil l ikrati*g ir,Cirn 044)4h im:tlM' l ames, i aver to Ant (Mile canine - NA timinar. Um 01ire.bel Port taniaaa captured by Qea. , i r Sherman last - ber....i.Aese works were evidently eons ... "eilwifit(view to preventing w surprise, to tender the rebel defences Sithplele . Aoticien the fikain of forts beyond #ort4tiolk , . am slid-t i e tillredoubt on th? ritt, Cr. '` ,i 7l a ~ Tke rebels ere helininglo,discuss the propriety. I:itcnakilleckinitai LeisiniStary dietatotOmd 1 iljto fierce' dennielations of Divis continue. rsa . PROM EUROPE. The - steam-ship New-York, frorw&mtharrepton Dec. 31st, and the Etna, from Liverpool Dec. 21 and Queenstown Dec. 22d, arriinid at - New-York January 3d t bringing--lour days later newa— The President's Message had been received and . • , printedotud rariOnsiy tominentet on by the English press. Parliathent would Meet early iirrebrnary;':"The Coiling - of' the new Atlantic cable on board the ship Amethyst was proceed ing. Charles Conti, the Corsican, had been ap pointed private Secretary to the French Empe ror. The Ministerial crisis in Spain has come to an end. All effats to form another ministry have failed. The Pope has issued a bull con demning all modern religions and political er rors having a tendency hostile to the Catholic Church, and exhorting the Bishops to confute them. The bull wits signed the Bth of October last PARTIES TO SETTS IN CIVIL CASES. In an act of Congress passed July lust, it is provided that In the Courts of the United States, " there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color, nor, in civil actions, beetles , he IS a party to Dr interested in the issue tried." This has been the ptactipc ht England for sonic years and founi to work advantageously. The latter portionig also the practice in two or three of our own States, among the rest Kentucky, where, so far as anything is known to the con trary, it has proved satisfactory. In a little while, the whole enactment will be adopted throughout the Union. • :ICONTRAIRAND The Government is determined to break up the business of publishing news for the iuformn• (ton of the enemy, as was dono in the case of the expedition under Admiral Porter. The .7)ln , s and Coinmerrukt Adeertiter, of New• York, have reeelved'iNarning from the War Depart ment, and if again guilty of a like transgression will he suspended. The parties who sent the in formation from Washington are under arrest. and, it is reported, have already been sent to Fort Lafayette. TIIE DIFFICULTY SETTLED The correspondence between the Brazilian minister and Mr. Secretary Seward, relative to the capture of the Florida, is published. The Brazilian has accepted the American's explana tion, and the difficulty is practically settled.- - Mr. Seward has managed the affair with su preme propriety and ability. GOVERNOR'S !WEN SA GE We print Gov, Curtin's message to the ex. elusion of several communications and some oth er nuttier intended for this number of the Repub. The message treats of topics or crest in terest to all our citizens, and will he generally rend. LE,GISLATIVF: After this week we shall resume the publica tion of an abstract of the daily proceedings of Congres. The Blair Mission to Richmond. WatiumotoN, Tuesday, Jan. 3, lea. Fume's P. Blair, motor, and Montgomery Blair re turned yesterday afternoon without peace. Mont gomery Blair went North by rail last evening.. All that is known of their mission is this: the President. was fully apprised of the motives and purposes that Induced the elder Blair to desire to go to Richmond, but he declined to make himself re sponsible for the Journey. He woutd,Aant glee a written authorization of it, nor otliclally promote It, but he told Mr. Blair lino he slirmld allow Gen. Grunt to net on his own sense ul dnty end-policy in forwarding him to Richmond Jr refusing him a passage through our lines. It is understood hem that when the Blahs reached Grant'a headquarters a telt.zram from the Secretary of War was there ahead of them, apprising the General that their mission to Richmond was selta.,uned and without the authority of the President, and star gesting, In the spirit and tailorof thtreVWeh, if not Co words, that the mission had better be stopped. The Matra stayed at Headquarter . * two days, and then-retraced their way home. It was understood that. Montgomery was not to go into Richmond with his Other., that he was to await his return at City Point. To strip this mission of all diplomatic ehardeter, a rumor hae been pushed to-day that Mr.'illair sim ply endeavored to get to Richmond to recover por. dons of his political correspondence taken boat year by Breekinridge ream his manakin et Silver Spring, and which was of so delicate a character that merry to ilving politicians and decency to dead ones recital'• ed that it should be recovered and suppressed at all bazuuls. Ibater dispatches state that neither Stanton nor Grant Interposed any obstacles to the mlssioni A Successful Raid into Alabama. NEW ORLEANS, DM. %, 1864. A force of about two thousand men including the Twenty-tlrst Zane Cavalry, First Alabama Cavalry, Fourteenth Now-York Cavalry, and thrt regiment, of Colored troops with two pieces of artillery, under command of Colonel G. D. Roldnson, of the Ninety seventh Colored Infantry, lett for a mid into Alabama, to Fever telegraphic and railroad COlllllllll/iCUI ions at Pollards, anc , to destroy such property and stores a might be found there. Pollard on the IGth nit., the place Was bread to be evacuated ; and Vie railroad depot. in cluding strain of eight cars, mostly tilled with grain; the milroul storehouse , tilled with grain and gov ernment property; quartermaster's and commiswary stores; ordnance budding, and 2000 stand of anus; a trestlework and a number of miles of railroad, were destroyed by oar troops; which bang scrompliabod, the expedition started to return, but were met at Little Esenmbia by the enemy under Cul. Armistead, who opposed their cro,stag rho bridge. The Colored infantry made a successful chars:, led by Cul. Robinson, 'Who fell shot through tie thigh when half way across the bridge. After Rob inson was wounded the command devolved upor. Lieutensuieolonel A. B. Speeding, Second Maine. A second attack was made by the enemy, which was repulsed and the rebels scattered through the woods with heavy loss, Including Col. Armistead, their leader. who was hilltaL Seven of the enemy's IlAIZ.• Were captured, and the expedition was lint again moles el during its return. Our total loss during the time the expedition was out wa. estimated at killed, -wounded and miming. RESOLUTIONIAUT PrNSIONERIL—Ortbe twelve en maihing Ilevointionary yentdoners whose names were'published In the beginning of last year, eeven have since died. The Survivow, are: Leirine7CO3•k, ealistesi at Hartford, Mass.; Is now about ninety-.l,ght year , of ii•M, and resides in Omen don„Orleans county,. N. Y. 'Samtrel Downing, en Haled Carroll manly. N. it., la dbont ninety-eight years 'Of age, - and resides in Edinburg, Saratoga county, N. Y. William HutelaingA, enlisted at BeTsv Cattle, Mn., (then Nast achtmetts); is now one hun dred years. old, and reside. in Penobscot, 'Hancock county; Me. Alexander Maroney, enlisted at Lake George, Now York,. as drummer hos 'Yates,• now 'Arita ninety-four years of age;' resides in Orlean. county, N. Y.; dames Barham, tubstitute for a drafted man In Southampton, Vu.; Ming in the State of Missouri, and in the one hundred and that year of bie age. The number of artglual•applications on be ol• widows of Bevolutlizary tiddlers, adtullted daring the decal year, W 93 teu, with a yearly amount of petitions equal tcifft2 MIL YAMADA! AND SPiarruausat.—Mr. Famday, in answer to a spiritualbrvitatioe has runt thc fol lowing ..Moinnmirbtle reply: PI am obliged by your eourteonainvitation, but really I have been so Masp pointed by the manifestations' to ;KWh my notice has at diffettmt times been called that I am not mi. eomaged :to give any Mom attention to them, and I thtielore leave those to which you tiler to the lumds of-the professore et Imentemaim• If apirit comma , olcations not: utterly worthless should. happen to sten' into activity, I will trust-the spirits to hod out for Merest:Ws how theycan. move my attention. I ant tired of them." _ - . • • Nom:mum:llr TIM AIpLZON.—A innst important dh,covery,lattcore sottam that of the alle”ed, smarm orthe Nste haS Suit tieen In4dc ntiotith America.— Rh Mat the great Riser Aniazon has been foned - to benivigable troM one end to the other; that, to fact, a near route has b'een - openkd between the Atlantic ao4. the 1;u-inc. The Merfme, a ?MOM steamer, which Ivas sent to f. , lore the Ap3azon , has arrived fmm.Rayro, :Mont WO miles from lame. Tbs An' onatav ri,mted more thin ,Ont) miles of rho Atnardm ProPrr, nbd 000 of .14gYmall gisid ti;e Paohltaftly ersa P,h4th Vielkileas*t.ony-itntlin!,canous. Atit, mm* aferairaz iitabltW x*ll Wig% aa it bcd irmaderail 11:1=17. - - Groi-Ornoi. of Pennsylvania., To k theJ3enizta and Itrhi,uxof Tiveseneatives'F During the put yeat the people of- thi+ Com-: monwealth have had reason to be gratefel to Almighty God for many hies-Sings. The earth has been fruitfid, industry has thriven, and with . the exception of the injury suffered, by the citi zens of some of our border counties, through the disgraceful barbarity of the rebel forces which ravaged parts of them, and burned the town of Chatnbersburg,we have no public misfortune to la• ment. The year chasm with a train of brilliant successes obtained . by the armies of the United State ,„±, inspiring hope in every loyal mind that the accursed rebellion will won be crushed, and pence be restored to obr country. The balunec in the Tretoury, Nov. 30, 1863, 'vu' $2.147,5n1 70 acceitne duringluenl,year encbug Nov 30, ISO 4. Total lu Treasury for fiscal year endlug Nov. SO, 1861 $6,880,G44 72 The payments for:Oc same period have 4,X5141 INj been Baku - cc-4o Traisury, Nov. 80, 1861.... 81,88:A3 03 The operations of the sinking fund duriug the last year have been shown by my proclamation of the 27th day of September last, as follows: Amount of debt of Common wealth reduced 1038,563 AA follows, ilz Fire per cent. loan of the Commonwealth S'AIS,SM3 Interest o.rtitleatee redeemed all 47 W 8,469,10 The fiscal year accounted for in the statement of the Treasury Department, embraces the time from the Ist of December, Itt63, to the 30th of November, 1844. The sinking fund year coin tnencial the first 'Monday in September, 1863, mid closed the first Tuesday September, 1864. This will explain the diserepauey betWeefi 'the statement of the Treasury Departmentata to the reduction of the public debt of the State, and the statement embodied in the proclamation relative to the sinking fund. Amount of public debt of Pennsylvania, as It stood on the first day of Dec. lrtxt, 4,496,896 78 Deduct sung, redeemed at the State Treasury dering the &eel year elating with Nov. 30, Dint, viz: Five per Cu IL storks... $104,72:2 73 Four and u-bull per cent. stork.; 10,CM)0 00 Interest eurtllleatts.... 2,270 11 110,942 84 ?Uhl lc debt I)eceml per 1 Funded debt viz : Biz per cent. loans ordi nary E,-100,04/ 00 Five per cent loans ordi nary :z,r,03,...= 72 Four and a half per cen trim loans, ordinary •,:53,_00 00 30,3tR,003 7'2 rufded debt viz: liebet notes in eirealu tiorr Interest ccrlitleAte. , utile standlno: Interest certillent.i un- claimed Domestic creditors' cer titivates Military loan per Act loth, May, Total public debt, Dee 1, lbtit. The Cornmorprealth holds bonds received room the sale of Public Works, amounting to ten million three hundred thousand dollark, ($10,300,- 000 00) as co 110 ws Pennsylvania Railroad Company bonds. 14,800,o(x) Philadelphia and Erie Railroad Com pany boucle. 0,50 0 ,b00 00 These bonds are in the Sinking Fund, and re duce the public debt to $29,079,1303 9-i. The ttIN on tonnage imposed by tile acts of 30111 April and August, lag, .hrtat yielded something less than was anticipated. I recom mend a revision of these acts for the purpose of rendering this s"urec of revenue more product ive, and emending other defects in those bills. The revenue derived from the tax on banks during the year amounts to $13139,603 67, but un dkr the enabling act of the State so many of our banks have La come National banks tinder the -,et of Congress, that this source of revenue may be considered as substantially extinguished, and it n ill be n/ cesvary in some way to make up the deficiency from other sources. The net of Uoneres3 ClltiOrio taxetion by the Sotte of the stock in the Rational banks in the Linda of the holders, out exceeding the rate of taxation imposed on other aimilar property, nod-part or The aerlclency may bo ,her provided The amount of debt extinguished by the Sink ing Fend during the year Is tionitt ally drat, which is to be accounted for by the ..itraordinary expenses which hate been incarreil. Seven hurl. trod and thirteen thousand dollars .($713.(#00) have been paid to refund to the banks the money advanced by them to pay the volunteers in ser vice during the triVasion of the State to 186& t)ne hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) have been distrihnted among the inhabitants of Chant hersburg, suffering by the rebel destruction of their town. About two hundred thousand dol lars (2 , 10,0001 have been expended under the acts providing for the payment of extra military claims, and to addition to these extraordinary outlays, the amount appropriated to charities was last year larger than usual. In my opinion this natter of donations to char. itiss is tasi running into a great abuse. Douses of Refuge, and Insane, Blind and Deaf and Dumb Asylums, appear to be proper subjects of State bounty, because their objects are of public im portseee, and to be 'useful, and well and mono. mica/1y managed, it seems to be necessary that they ale till he more extensive than would be re• paired for the wants of a particular county. But lit on: system, ordinary local charities are left to the care of the respective localities; and to give the pubfi, money for their support is really to tax the inhabitants of all the counties for the benefit of one. The national taxation is heavy and must prob ably be made heavier, and the local taxes author ized by unwise legislation and paid by our peo ple are excessive. In view of these circumstan ce., we should endeavor to avoid increasing their biarde , s by making undue appropriations for any purpose. It being alleged that the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Company has dot in various particulars obeyed the law by which it was in corporated, the Attorney General (on the sug gestion of parties claiming to be thereby injured) has tiled an information in equity against that company, seeking an injunction to prevent a con tinuance of its past, and the persistence in its intended illegal course. Some my last annual message, on the report of John A. 'Wright, EN., that the linnbury and Erie railroad was finished, I ordered the bonds remaining in the treasury to be delivered to the company. It is a subject of just pride to the people of this Commonwealth, that this great work is com pleted, and whilst it opens a large: and wealthy part of the State to the commerce of the seaboard, and 'mites capital and enterprise within our bor ders, it secures to the Commonwealth the pay ment of the anms due her from the company. In my special message of 3001 April last, to which I refer, I communicated ki the Legisla ture, in some detail, the ,circumstances connect ed with the advance by hanks and other corpo rations of the funds to pay the volunteer-militia of 18U-.3. It is not necessary here to recapitulate them at. length. The case was peculiar, and It Is be. lievcd none quite like It bas occurred. The call for volunteers was made by the authorities of the United States, but it being found that men could not be got under that call, the form of a call by the State authorities for the defence of the State was, with,the assent of the President, substituted. The United States agreed to furnish the ainut, subsistence and suppli42, but it was alleged that Congress. bad made no appropri ation covering the pay. In this slate of things, the emergency being great, the'BecreterY of War telegraphed me, thus: Wountaroar t July 2;2d,1803, 7 . 9 Hie &agency, doe. 4. (1. Curtin: - Your telegrams respecting the pay of militii, called not under your proclamation of the 27th of June, have been referred to the. President for instructions. and have been under his consider. ntion. Ile directs me to say, that while no law ok appropriation authorizes the payment, by the General Government of troops that have not been mustered into the service of the United States, he will recommend to Congress to make an appropriation for the pameat of troops called into State service to ire an - Acing tumid:xi, itielndint thosb - orthe 'ot- • If in the utantime l au' Was Um =mg DEM artninnt, put has been done !pother States, the ap propriation will be applied 14 refund the ad- Vance to those who made It;. pleasures have been taken for the payment of:trotaps7raloatered, Into the United States serviat; BS stititi,llS the mutera and pay rolls aro madocut Theanswer of thls department, to you sa Governor : of the State, will be given directly to Yourself, Affirm ever the department is prepared to make answer. (Signed) EDWIN 11 STANTON, • Secretary of War. The hanks and other corporations refused to advance the money unless I would pledge my self to ask an appropriation from the-Legislature to refund It. It - will be - noticed that the pled° of the President is clear and ,distinet, but, not withstanding.the money was 'paid send the ac counts settled and placid in the hands of the President before the meeting of Congress, no such recommendation as promised me was made, arid for that reason the bill introduced , for that purpose failed. The men were raised and placed under the command of 3lajoeGenertil Couch and the other U. S. officers in this Department, The troops were held 'ln- service longer than the , emergency for which they were called nut re mitted. Several of the regiments were marched immediately into distant parts of the State, by order of the officers of the army stationed Pennsylvania, against my repeated remon strances. They were retained, as was alleged, to preserve the peace and enforce the dram— Nearly, if not quite, oneffinlf the money was paid ' to troops thus held, and after the emergency had cleared. Finding that the appropriation was likely to fail In Congress, I laid the matter before the Legislature, just prior to their adjournment, in May lust, and an act of Assembly was Imme diately passed to refund the money out of the State Treasury, which, as above stated, has been dime: I ought to say that the appropriation by Congress was vigorously supported by all the members, from this State, in both branches.— Baying dose everything in my power to pro ehre the paytueut of this just claim of the State, L now recommend that the Legislature take the subject into consideration with a view to induce proper fiction by the President and Congress. - By the act of 22d August, 1644, I was author ized to cause an immediate enrollment of the mi litia to be made, unless that recently made by the United States should be found sufficient, and to ratite by volunteering or draft a corps of fif teen thousand men for the defence of our South ern border. The United States enrollment be ing found very defective, I diretted an enroll ment to be made, which is now„in progress un der the charge of Colonel Lemuel Todd, whom I appointed Inspector General. A draft by the United States was that in progress, and it was not thought advisable to harass our people by a contemporaneous State dealt, even if a draft had been practicable under the present law. Volun teers could aot he obtained, there being no boun ties, and the men not being exempted by their enlistment in haat corps from draft by the United States. Fortunately the United States plated an army, under General Sheridan, between us and the enemy, and tiles provided effectually for our defence. With such adequate protection as proved by the brilliant campaign of that army, I did not think it right to incur the expense to the State of an independent army, and the with drawal of so many of out people from their homes and ptirstiits. Meanwhile arrangements have been made with the authorities at Wttah- Melon for arming, clothing, subsisting and sup plying the corps at the expense of the United States, mud an order has beets gtVen by the au thorities of the United States to furnish such vol unteers in the carps as may be drafted by the United States, The corps so privileged not to exceed 5,0 0 0 men during the winter, andl have already adopted measures to that end. There may occur irruptions of irregular bodies of the rebels, and it is well to be provided against them. The number proposed to be so raised and put into actual service, will, in my Judgment be suntelem, awl a regard to due economy, requires that no more than are atufficient shark. ha placed on pay. The remaining 19,11 i% will be organized, and ready for service in case of necessity. I in- Vile your immediate attention to the very able report of the inspector General, which sets forth the defects in the law which he has distsaVered in his preparation for carrying it into practical effect. _ . _ 4,759,312 02 11 1 39,379,6 1 X11:14 47,251 00 MIS OEM i 24 32 11A,510 21 86,370.603 WI .1,000,000 00 C 39.379,603 94 $10,300,000 00 The State agencies at Washincton arid hi the South-west, are in active and butcesfol operation. I communicate herewith the reports of Col. Jor dan, at Washington, and Col, Chamberlain, a nnul for the South-west. The provisions of the law requiring the agents to collect moneys due by the Cubed States to soldiers, have been bent - cent. A. reference to their reports will show, the magnitude and usetulness of I.IIIS branch of their service. I desire to invite tile attention of all our volunteers, ofticers, soldiers and their familial to the fact that the State agents will collect all their claims on the Government, gratuitously, as I have reason to believe that many are still rga.s. rant of the fact, and are Beatty imposed upon by the esorbitaht commissions charged by private Claim agents. tinder the act of the 6th of May, 1861, 1 ap pointed Hon. Thomas 11. Burn - meg to take charge of the arrangements for the education of the orphans of soldiers. I erintrallaieate here with a copy of his report on the subject. Ela has disoharged his duties with commendable zeal, fidelity and efficiency. I earnestly recom mend that a permanent and liberal epprepriation lie made ro support this just and worthy scheme of berieficellee. I recommend that an appropriation be made for pensions to the volunteer militia men, (or their famitics,) who were killed or hurt in set , vice in the years 1562 and 1663. As soldiers sometimes arrive here who are insane, and who should be protected and cared for, I recommend that provision be made for their being placed in the State Asylum for the Insane, at this place, and kept until notice can be given to the author ities of their respective counties, who should be required to remove and care for them. feel it to be my duty to invite your serious attention to the evil= growing out of the system of passing nets of incorporation, for purposes which are provided for by general laws. We have passed acts authorizing charters to be ob tained without special legislation. These acts have been generally prepared with some care, and contain the provisions which the Legislature thought necessary to protect the Commonwealth and her citizens. If the general laws are not found to answer such purposes, they should be amended and perfected. If any company desires to be incorporated with greater privileges than are conferred, or to be relieved from any of the conditions imposed by these act ,_it appears to me that it should be required first to obtain a charter under the general laws, and then apply to the Legislatirre for an act making the changes which are desired. The attention of the Legis lature will thus be drawn to the specific object, and a judgment can be formed of its propriety. I would also observe that great evil results from the habit of granting privileges to a corporation by a inert reference to some former private act relating to miler corporations, sometimes without even giving the date of these acts. All these practices are bad, and although they may some. times be pursued by parties having no bad inten tion, yet they certainly onginated in the design of surprish ' , Lie Commonwealth into grants of privileges which it was known could not be ob tained if their extent were understood, and they are often followed now for the same fraudulent purpose. I strongly recommended the repeal of the act passed the 18th day of July, A. D. 1863, entitled " An act relating to corporations for mechanical, manufacturing, mining, and quarrying purposes." Its provisions are found to he practically so nit consistent with the duo protection of the citizens and with the just policy of the Commonwealth, that it ought not to be allowed to stand longer on our statute book. I approved the act in griefs tion with great reluctance, and subsequent reflec tion and observation have satisfied me of its mis chievous character. I also recommended the repent of an act passed the 22d day of July, A. D. 18111, entitled " fur ther supplement to an act to enable joint tenants and tenants in common, and adjoining owners of mineral lands in this Commonwealth, to manage and develop the same." This act allows foreign corporations to hold three hundred 'sem of land in this State' for mining purposes. It was passed, it is believed, for the purpose of enabling companies near our border engaged in the manufacture of iron, to hold land us ore banks. But tinder the idea that the stoking of an oil well is mining, it is believed that companies have already been organized un der the laws of other States, and that more will be, for the purpose of holding lands and carrying on the oil business In this 13tate. It wOultibe better to remove all doubt on this question by repealingthe act. These companies, being for , eign corporations, are not within the control of our laws to the extent that they ought to be for the mimeses of taxation and regulation. The immense development of wealth In some of our western counties by the discovery of oil, has added vastly to the resources of the. Com monwealth. . - I have made eflorta to ascertain the value of this product during the last year, but have failed to.proeuring information anhiciently accurate to justify, sue m estimating its amount." It laid . ready vast, and, is rapidly Increasing, 4Tbm:codas:none andinanufactureao(she }gain. Jaye become so 41inseltled ,asui 'lllatcolat that. isms iMiwg *del bp taw AA Itp VOA% ascertidninent of them, act that their extent may be genera, known, arid also that the necessary taxatiort'may be Intelligently imposed. I re commend,fer thettiS prtrpolto.lhe.4MtOn ti ora. Bureau, of which the:Atidlibrirtintral Ike Treasurceshall lie Melniks& itratt: i the f 4eatilif whichshall be neneforncer, be - -,atylS-d Coni mlssioners of Statistics, or designated 'by any other appropriate titlg.. . : v The Act of 211th of August. PP:milling 6)l ' the voting of soldiers, shmild be carefully-exam ined, with a view to its amendment, and, indeed. a revision of the whole election laws would acetn to-be-desirable with a view In the WO es• - gentle! objects of, I. The admission of legal and exclusion of illegal votes at the rolla; and,. 2. Faithful and correct returns of the votes ac- tnally polled. I communicate herewith the opin- Icin of the Attorney General on thi , conflicting returns for the 16th Cungrusional District, which wlii shOw some of the practical diffientties which 'arise uhder the existing system, Without on dertskiag to „recogillienii,.the adordion_of any part cider plan, I submit the whole subject to your careful and earned „Oonsiderittlon, in the hope that 'Your wisdom will be able to devise some measure which Will produce the result so essential to the existent% of n free government : that votes shall be fairly taken in the llftt In stance, and fairly tsaunted and returned after wards. I have endeavored since I came Into office to exercise as cautiously as porJble the power con fided to the Execntlye, and avoid usurping any. I I I shall endeavor to persist in this course to the I end. A new call has been Made by the President for 300,090 men this renders it proper that I should invite your attention to the evils which have resulted from abuses of the system of local bounii-s which was begun, in an emergency, by the voluntary and generobs loyalty of our citi- ZODS, before the passage 11q Congress of the en rolment art, and " has since been continued by sundry acts of Assembly. The result has been to the last degree oppressive to our citizeus, and unproductive of corrftponding benefits to the Government. In sonic counties and townsh,ips, it is believed that the bounty tax during the last year exceeded the'average Mantle derivedfrom the land. The large. Stints nettled in some places in the nempeUtlon or inen, have demoralized many of tut twbple, and the most atrocious fractir, Connected with the system have become common. The men of some of the poorer coon ties have been nearly exhausted by their volun teers being crodtled to richer localities psyche heavier bounties. The &Indent as practiced low ers the +aerate of the hitiy itself, by putting Into the ranha men actuated by merely mercenary motives, and who are tempted to desert by the facilby of escaping detection, and the prospect of new gains by re-enlistment, a process which they expect to be able to twat an indefinite number of times. 01 the number of men fur wham bounties have been paid, it is believed that not one fourth have been place in the ranks of the army, and even those who have joined it, have not probably on an average received for their own useVone-half of the bounty paid for them. ulmmenshellms have thus been appropri ated by cheats and swindlers, in many cases be lieved to be acting in complicity with tigencles of the Government An effort NVELat . made to ph - met:Mt some of the punks Conceited in Stith tnitids under the act of Assembly of 1411 August last, and they were hound over by the Mayor of this city, but after the witnesses bad come here on the meeting of the court, they disappsenred from the public eye. I recommend the whole Atib3ert to your careful. comddetallon, that the system may be purged of these evils. I am of:tidally. informed that the quota of this state, under the recent cell, is 66..99% hut I am not informed ofithe principle on which the dratt is to be made. It appears Oen tile — President's proclamation that it is made chiefly to simply an alleged de ficiency in former calls. lam surprised at the amount of tbisl large deficiency, and can only amount for the difference between the number of men furnished by the State and the deficiency alleged to exieein the assignment of the 'pres ent quota by the assumption that the 'nee never reached the army, although enlieted and Mus tered after the paYrilent of bounties by the lo calities to which they were supposed to be cred ited. It is peobable that there are very few counties in the State which have not paid large bounties for a ntimber of men sufficient to till their former quotas. Tilling the local bounties at the lowest aver age of tour honred ,dollars, and it Is believed that It Can be demonstrated that the people of Pennsylvania have thus been robbed of more than twelve millions of dollars during the past year. This estimate does not include the money fraudulently taken front men tsbo haVe actually gone icte u,e eervice. The continutinee of. these monstrous and un paralleled abuses cannot be tolerated. Certainly more men are termite? to aid our gallant soldiers in the field in crushing this re hellion and every consideration of patriotism and eeregard for our blithers who fire now In Ihe face of the . enemy, obliees us to spare no a lert to raise the necessary fume, In June lnet-I gate letters to is temirnittee of the risen society of Philadelphia, requesting that the members of the committee might be al lowed to visit and examine the prisons and poor. linuses througlionttbeCommonwealth. I trans mit with this communication a copy of the re port made to Inc by the society of the results of their Inhere, and commend the same to your at tention with n view to the adoption of proper measures to reform the abuses which have beets found to eklet, In connection with this subject, I again call your attention to the expediency of providing for the reception in the penitentiaries, of persans convicted of murder In the first degree, and who may be pardoned on condition of serving a limited term therein. It has become a custom that an incoming Governor should not Issue a warrant of execution In cases left enacted upon by his predecessor, slid It not tinfrequently hap pens that in eases which are recent, while some punishment should. ,be Inflicted, that of death may appear to the Executive to be too severe. The result is that there are at this time, in the various prisons, .some eighteen or twenty persee s nnder sentence of death, and who may lie there for en indefinite period of time. The vast amount of additional labor which has been Imposed upon the Secretary of the commonwealth by the existing state of affairs renders It absolutely necessary that the clerical force of hie department should be Increased. The making out of commissions for our large army of vol unteers In the field, and the prepara tion of election blanks required by late to be sent to the army—the receipt, filing and record ing the returns of the soldiers votes—the enrol. men t of the yearly Increasing number of Acts of Assembly, mid of charters obtained under gen eral laws and the making out of letteni_patent for them—all these, together with the previous heavy duties of the office—form an aegregate, the weight of which mast nliiinately break ]down his few subordinates, diligent, faithful and en during es they are. I recommend, therefore, that prevision be promptly made to meet the necessities of this mtge. it is a subject of just congratulation that not, withstanding the distracted state of the country our system of common schools continues to flour- Leh. The report of the Superintendent, which I herewith transmit, shows that there has been an increase of scholars during the past year. It is important to sivurterie teachers a suilieient num ber:of men of suitaill.reducation and ability, and with a view to this _object, I suggest for your' consideration the expediency of Junking out of the school fend itself some provision for the sup port of such teachers as shall after a given term of !melee become superannuated or disabled while in the perforrnane of their duties. Of the fund placed in my hands by the Acts of I tell of May, 1861,, and of the 4th of May, 1834, and to be appropriated in my judgment mili tary service, I have expended in the last year $6,124 68 in support of the agency at Washing ion—op until the iffith of ?flay last, for my per sonal staff and other military service, an Recount of which hi settled, in • the taw of the Auditor General. ' - No similar appropriation Will be required at this session. . A, bill was lath:4lElml anti passed the House at the last session of the Legislature providing for the appointment of a commission to ascertain the damage done to the cauntiesof Bedford, ton, Franklin; Cumberland, York and Aditils, by the reberarmy ,failed in the &Untie for of time. • ,I commend to your_consideralluithe proprie ty of the painage.of tmch a bill _during the pres' ent session. It is just to the peopleof these coun ties who liatalselfeted, its Well as to the Govern ment that,these damages Should be fairly 'neer tathed'ond fheevidence 'perpetuated, whatever may be the iiewle be fattener' future eensidera. lien by the tt,ulletl States or Stale Government 114) to,the propriety of paying such claims, . .Major• Genera Hancock has been authorizer] by the . War' Department b raise a corps of veterans, :to be called - the. First Crepe. One of the regubitions is that 'application bythe Gar mot, (COW Stite,. recruiting ofliceni will -be deitignat for such State. -Atm been request,' ed.b7.43l3otelailaneeekl6 l maktisedgspolkil. ilandat 11115 re bit4Mo (WM4 to altoply vt% the request. It appetite to til S , thet th • Male! of mentabsed on the plats" iited 'lsy th e War Departs's — eat wouldprobablE, tbd retitled to thGeOkr Prov:Sof-a /§1 , Oat own lewd' for the atale& avoltiatet* haft shrieked of General „Batatneir•tvbeiter tkef pmpoted corps Is to form porter thireg army ortirthevOltipieer fame, self the 'maxi under willtf • act of Congress le is to:b. raised.; He hits referred that totnmuni .tatfon, 't4e Visf-Peranments'Alona which I have as yet reeelved ho ansWerto it; j The following letters have •passedl between General Hancock and myself on this staled: _ - ILuttimituno, P,a.,,Dee...* 1861. • • tirezrili :74 ;receitel.yent , litter at-the ma. ment of my departure for Philadelphia on Mon day last. I returned this mornitsg and hasten-to reply. Thiving no knowledge clfrtliii oligisqlzstforf of the carps you are to cOmmantl-thap whit'ap; pears in the newspapers and orders t 441.181.-. obliged if ou ivilllnfotvl"rti~'lift t -re garded a, a part of the regular army, pf theynl ted States or partolthe itolunteer serticei IF it is a part of the army of thp trotted BtAtei I certainly have Ito contteetioh with It,, as Oov en3or of (ho State, .If It is organlredf as volun- ' teera, be pleased to inform me under !what set Of Congress. I need net say, General, that I would be most happy to (loan In my power personallyand offi cially to raise a !tree tts he cotntnatatied by you. _ Can We not tuitegoil two or three right:lents Pethityitiahla, In the usual manner , ac cording to acts of Congress, for your corps, - Of course, I would consult you in thel selection of officers and only commission where you oppmre. I cannot understand the Importance of my asking that persons be sent to Pennsylvania to I Induce veterans to go to the Distriet hr cobbibbh to enlist. I certainly Will' do , nothing to , =tig ress the plan proposed. We have benefits, by general and 'special leg islatiou to Pennsylvania, which attach to the volunteer and hts thr)ily. While Ltvtll do noth ing to deter the veterans of the State from en tering your vorps, I hesitate to edtanett myself with a mode of eattgitheof which may. deprive thrhi of Mich benefits, unless it is my duty un der the law. 1 ant, General, very respectfullY; Your obedient eervant A. G. cturfur. Major-General VTErirta,44)l3.llAFteop'4. licatX(oArcriThs PtitsieOttra;' i- VirAsursevrox, D. C., Dee.'3l, DAL • • To Hif Ersdleney, Hon. A. 0. Cuirrus;Gorernor of l'ennel i kania : Sin; —I have the honer, to acknowledge the receipt of your emanattidriation of the 29th and haVe related the , same to the. War Depaii, merit. I thank you for your kind expression of personal good will, and regret . that there should be any occasion on yonr part to-lend your offt-. cial Influence, 'us Governor, to the ritishitiofthe corps as proposed by the War Department" It Is not within my province, perhaps; to cuss the plan of or,ganizat ion, as I nut acting un der the direct orders of the War Department, and my own views, Therefore, are of no prattled moment. I may gin however, that I have no knowledge of the organisation other than what I have derived from the rollers and circulars of which I mailed you official copies Dee. tlthi I cannot see how volunteers fur thhr corps from your State lose any of the advantageS at taching to those for other organizatibtur. They are credited torthe localities whew they or iheir familie.s are domiciled, and coUttt.olllbD quota of your State.. It should be borne In mind that. this is en eiruft to get men into the service who are not subject to the draft. I have the honor to l'Cuifit; very respectfully, your obedieht servant • 'WINFIELD S. HANCOCK,' Major-General IT. 8. Volunteers, commanding First Corps. . The only act of Congress for raising volun teers that I am &ware of, requires that the UN, and line offitera shall lie, commissioned by the Governors of the seteral States. Thii'men id this corps are not to be formed intei,prganlia tions of the respective States, and It is that Its officers shall fic appointed bythe genet; al goyeretnent "I know of no act of Congew e or of Assembly under which men ireised will be entitled to pensions or their fami este - bet I.e fits from the nited States Mr State oyemment In addition, I will observe that without apy feel* .. log ofjeulousy, I am still not ready tn.. partici pate actively in transferring to the Llilicrl States Illegally the right of appointment vested In the' State, end which the State authorities call 'exer cise with more discrimination.bySmson Of, bait ing a greater familiarity with the merits :et the: citizens of their own State, than 'the:Halted ' States authorities can possibly have. I'will transmit ant' farther communication- that I may receive on this subject. • It will he perceived by reference to the correspondence,thet I have offi emit to raise, in the manner provided by Taw, . two or three regiments oflteterans for - Hancock% Corps. My riciire is to assist the oOverronent In every legal music in.reizing men, and especi ally to facilitate an ofticer—a native liensYlvarli an—so distinguished as General Henpeck, In his efforts to organize a new corps. .. - I shall throw no obstacle in his way on the present occasion, but I emnot, certainly, be ex- ; petted to invite a violation of law' in carrying I out a plan which sacrifices the rights 'of the State under existing laws, arid would leave the men unprotected by them, so for an conceroSl !inure provision for their -comfort :and that' 9ii their families. . . I will further observe that. It appears '4 the report of the Adjutant General, herewith trans. that the State, irader the system estab lished by law, has put into the tuflitarY.'set i vicei of the United States since the commeneeme of the war, the following number of tnen,',riz Trotsto arra Otto &reins during ISO:" Organttations for three rears' Oroudzations for one hundred days' term Ortrimit.ilions for one year term Volunteer manna Drafted men and Rubttitutea. ' Recruits fur regular army ' Re e.liahnents of iltastavivirnirt reinu. leers: Infantry ' Cavalry • • Artillery Accredited to other Mates 91,701 .Z•eop, Ao.t into the irrrice °Ph? Male &bar tines the nannienameni of the rebellion, tact uelinq the mintly dap' militia in the depuenueette of eh dfonatigahrtet and Su.. nehanna in 1863 : Doling the year 1 861 1.V,591 • do. do. 1863 ' 71,100 do. I do. 1863. (4046 do. do. 11461. 73,8ezi Re-enlisMtent of Penaeylcania v01tudeer5.....17,878 . - 33040 The twenty-sire thoisand Militia:of 1863 are notincluded in this statement. the attention of the Legislature ,to the Report of the Surveyor General, -herewith . pre sented. nod commend the suggestions Made by that (dicer to your contddaratton. This Message is accompanied by fall • reporht of all the military departments. They. exhibit the large amount of service Performed during the past year, atd contain a full history of ail the n d litary operations'of the State. • --Many val uable recommendations are made in theta to proniote , tbe efficiency of, our volunteers, and the comfort of the sick and wounded, which I recommend to your earnest , and Immediate at tention. It affords - me great Satisfaction ,to bear mytestimony to the ability, diligence. and fidelity of all the officers in these several de partments.- Before closing this message I desire to advert to the delay which has sometimes occurred in the passageof thegenemlarot eco rtatieriblil: It is necessary that this bill should me law. as otherwise the action of floverrimeht would' be stopped. To delay its presentation to the Exec. naive as was done at the last regular session— till a late hour :Of thelnlght before the morning fixed fer,the. field adjournment, is to-dew:lva the people of their right to have ail hills sublull• to - ilie'revhdon of the .Legislature before becom hag laws, In case the Executive; sheiuld not ap- PrOelliont. -If there had Items dote 't should probably have returned tbe.apprapilation 'DK of Lust year for revision, as when I leidthe cp portunity of delibemtely.cianlining it, I found provisions which I enuld not • have: tiPPlViredi-t; but that opportunity was dented Cue 'berme the bill had-become a law, and in,fsetialt the Legit haute was on the-point of adiburnmeit, the only question presented to me was whether - that bill; should be a law without amendment or the maxis; shies of the Government remale unprovided_ fer,_ seldters in the field still sheds lustre on,-the coallitOtiWealtilf and,, that their malt la appreciated - 1w a generous peopkr is shOwn by the contlnued atutcheerfd,ll.Wl. ty with whlch , the men and.utortten ot the Ellate contribute of their mearnt.for their comfort 11314 welfare. .Idaythe blessing of. God he on-those brave metwrm bevestood by_ the country thre the dark hours of tier visa,• - —•": 1 Ale:14.11-014N t IlxEctinno elution. UhnigninisAirle Ma I r htea til e la et n era Ul be 4 mt ember 6111 Dow zed at ri t e thm li Dona Mina now Cede ittli ; 0 stv of ru Ei sold us la a. gl• 014 art Ural Mid sted, rtilk, Ind die Attie 0 bel rose I' 4:70 null al ifs+ y au alit vo co hat cam cuts •aL. oni non Peel % or, 1 P,Stit 1 7,675 16,V9{ 23,5137 10,651. 2,8741 -19,863 .. 7119 889 11.576
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