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yob. XV.
AN ACT
To Create a Loan and to Provide for
Arming the State.
Swum 1. Be it meld by the Senate' and
House of Rvresentatives of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is
hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That
the Liovernor and State Treasurer be and they
are hereby authorized and empowered to bor
row on the faith of the Commonwealth, at such
time, in such amounts, and with such notice as
they may deem most expedient for the interest
of the State, any sum not exceeding three mil
lions of dollars, and issue certificates of loan
or bonds of the Commonwealth for the same,
bearing six per cent. interest per annum, paya
ble semi-annually, in the city of Philadelphia,
which certificates of loan or bonds shall not be
subject to taxation for any purpose whatever,
and shall be re imbursed at any time after the
expiration of ten years from their date, and the
sum so borrowed, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, shall be and the same is hereby
appropriated to defray the expenses of organ
izing, arming, equiping, transportinc , b and sup
porting the military forces of this State, now
or hereafter to be called into service in aid of
the Government of this State, or of the United
States, and to enforce the laws thereof, and all
incidental expenses connected threwith : Pro
, vided, That no certificate of loan or bond shall
be issued for a less sum than twenty-five dollars:
Provided further, That all certificates issued of
the denomination of one hundred dollars or
less, shall be coupon bonds. Provided fur
ther, That no certificate shall be negotiated
for less than its par value ; the said certifi
cates of loan to impart on the face thereof
the purposes for which the same were issued,
and to be transferable ou the books of the
Commonwealth at the Farmers' and Mechanics'
Bank, in the city of Philadelphia.
SEC. 3. That the bonds or certificate of loan
issued under the provisions of this act shall be
signed by the Governor and countersigned by
the State Treasurer and Auditor General, and a
correct and accurate registry of the same shall
be kept in a book to be provided for that pur
pose in the office of the Auditor General who
shall make annual report thereof to the Legis
lature, and the Governor is hereby authorized to
draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for such
sums as may be necessary to pay the proper ex
penses incident to the negotiation of euchloan,
the preparation of the bonds or certificates of
loan authorized to be issued by this act and
said warrants shall be paid out of Any moneys
in the treasury.
SECI. 3. That the Governor be and he is
hereby authorized by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate to appoint a competent
person of military education, experience and
skill to have command of all the military forces
of Pennsylvania to be raised under the provis
ions of this bill with the rank of Major
who while in actual service shall be entitled to
the pay and emoluments of a Major General in
the army of the United States, and he shall also
have authority in manner as aforesaid to ap
point two persons of like military education,
experience and skill to be Brigadier Generals
who while in actual service shall be entitled to
the pay and emoluments of officers of the same
rank in the army of the United States.
SEC. 4. Whenever the militia of this Com
monwealth shall be called into service by the
requisition of the President of the United
States, or the proclamation of the Governor, it
I shall be the duty of the Adjutant General to
notify, in writing, the Quarter-Master General
and Commissary General of the point or
points where the men are to rendezvous,
with the number, as near as may be,
and said officers shall forthwith advertise for
proposals for supplying to the Commonwealth
such supplies as may be necessary for furnishing
the troops with rations and all other stores
named in and provided by the laws or regula
tions of the United States—said proposals to be
directed to the said Commissary General and
Quarter Master General respectively, and to be
opened after five day's notice, and the contracts
to be awarded to the lowest bidder by the
proper officer inviting said proposals, and
adequate security to be taken for the faithful
performance of the contract before the same is
awarded ; and said officers shall publish and
keep on file in their several departments, for
public inspection, a list of all the proposals of
fered, including those rejected as well as those
awarded ; and before the acceptance of any
provisions, or other military stores of any kind
whatsoever purchased upon contract, as herein
befote provided, it shall be the duty of the
Quarter Master General or Commissary General,
as the case may be, in connection with the Au
ditor General and State Treasurer, to appoint
from time to time, as required, one or more
disinterested and competent inspectors familiar
with the value and quality of the provisions or
military stores so contracted, for whose duty it
shall be to examine and accept or reject the
same, and, if accepted, to give a certificate
thereof to contractor or vendor, and no bill
rendered for any such provisions or stores
be paid, until so certified and approved. The
inspectors so appointed shall each receive five
dollars per day for every day necessarily em
ployed in discharge of their duties, and shall
severally be sworn or affirmed to discharge
their duties with fidelity.
Sacr. 6. The chief of each Staff Department
shall, under the direction of the Governor, have
command over all subordinate officers in his
department, and shall from time to time issue
orders and instructions for their government
and practice.
&or. 6. The Governor is hereby authorized
and empowered to organize at his discretion the
various Staff Deparapetits, and to prescribe by
rules and regulations the duties to be perform
ed by the officers connected therewith, which
shall, as far as may be, conform to those which
are prescribed for the government of the Staff
Department in the army of the United States :
Provided, That each chief of such department
shall prepare and transmit at the expense of
this State all blank forms of returns, precepts,
warrants and proceedings necessary in his de
partment.
SEC. 7. The Governor is hereby authorized to
appoint such staff officers as he may deem nec
essary for the proper efficiency of the service,
who shall receive, when on active duty, the
same pay and allowance as officers of the like
grade in the employment of the United States;
and he is also authorized and empowered to
confer brevet rank on such officers of the Penn
sylvania troops as shall distinguish themselves
by gallant actions and meritorious conduct ;
and he shall have authority to promote and
appoint such non commissioned officers and
Privates to the rank of second lieutenant as
shall be reported to the Governor by a board
composed of the three officers highest in rank
of the command to which they may be attached
at thii time as having distinguished themselves,
said officers Ulm to be attached to the several
"INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS-NEUTRAL IN NONE•"
HARRISBURG, PA., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 17, 1861
regiments, to 'supply such vacancies as may
occur by casualities or otherwise.
Sao. 8. There shall be a hospital depart.
meld which shall be supervised by the Surgeon
General, who shall be a member of the grand
staff, with, the rank of Colonel ; and to
each division, when in actual service, there
shall be a hospital Surgeon with the, rank of
Major ; and to each brigade, when in actual
service, a hospital Surgeon with the rank of
Captain ; said officers to be appointed and com
missioned by the Governor, and (except the
Surgeon General) to be first examined and
recommended for appointment by the Surgeon
General and a board of such other surgeons,
not exceeding three, as he may direct. The
rank of all said officers shall not entitle them
to promotion in the line, nor shall it regulate
their pay and rations, except when in actual
service, under a requisition from the Presi
dent of the United States or the proclamation
of the Governor, and all Surgeons and Sur
geons' Mates now or hereafter to be appointed,
Shall be examined by the Surgeon General and
a board of Surgeons, not exceeding three, as he
may direct, and the qualifications and fitness
of all Surgeons and applicants for appointments
as such, shall be reported in writing to the
Governor.
SEC. 9. That before the settlement and pay
ment of any bill by the State Treasurer, the
Auditor General shall require, except for inci
dental expenses, or when it may be impractica
ble, an affidavit taken before a proper officer
of this Commonwealth, to the following effect,
viz : City or County of ss.
Personally appeared before me, an alderman
or justice of the peace in and for said City or
County, of the arm
of , who, having been
according to law, saith that the
above account is correct ; that the articles
therein charged were furnished to the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, on the order of the
head of the proper Bureau, and that the prices
charged for the same are the actual wholesale
cash prices charged for goods of like quality
to other customers, and no more ; that no com
mission, abatement or allowance whatever,
has been or is to be given to any pet son con
cerned in the ordering or purchasing of said
articles ; and that the said articles, or any per
son whomsoever, and that the said articles are
of the quality,size and quantity mentioned,in the
said account. and subscribed before
me,
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Every account shall be accompanied by a
certificate from the head of the proper Bureau
that the account is correct; that the articles
were furnished on his order and supplied as
charged : Provided, That any person who shall
be convicted before any court of record in this
Commonwealth of wilful perjury under the pro
visions of this section, shall suffer, in addition
to the penalties now provided by the laws of
this Commonwealth against perjury, the forfei
ture of the whole amount of the price of the
r—i. r ly charged for, one-half of shan -ac-Emrl9.o or persons' who
shall give information, and shall prosecute such
charge to conviction, and the other half shall
go to the military fund of this Commonwealth.
SEC. 10. 'that all expenditures of the appro
priation of five hundred thousand dollars made
by the Act of April 12, 1861, entitled, " an Act
for the better organization of the military," &c.
on the warrant of the Governor, are hereby de
clared to be as valid as if the same were made
after settlement of accounts on the warrant of
the Auditor General. Provided, That the several
disbursing officers or other persons who received
moneys on the Governor's warrant as aforesaid,
be, and are hereby required to settle for the
same with the accounting officers of the
Commonwealth in the usual manner.
Sac. 11. That the Adjutant General, Quarter
Master General and Commissary General shall
hold their respective offices for the term of three
years, if they so long behave themselves, un
less otherwise provided by law, shall each
give bond, with 'sufficient security to be
approved by the Governor to the Common
wealth in the sum of $20,000 dollars, for the
faithful discharge of their respective official du
ties, and shall also be authorized to take and
require from any deputies under them bonds to
the Commonwealth in such sum and in such
form as may be approved by the Governor, to
secure the faithful discharge of their respective
duties; and all expenditures for the military
service of 'the State shall be accounted
for in such form and manner as the Auditor
General and State Treasurer may have prescrib
ed or may hereafter direct. The Adjutant General,
Quarter Master General and Commissary General
shall be entitled to receive out of the State Trea
surer from time to time, on the warrant of the
Governor, such sum or sums of money not exceed
ing at any one time three-fourths of the amount
of the penalty in their respective bonds as may
be required for military service, and for all
moneys thus received and expended by them
they shall account in manner and form as is
required by law, for each particular sum so
drawn, before receiving any further sum under
the provisions of this act.
Sze. 12. That it shall not be lawful for any
volunteer soldier to leave this Common
wealth as such, unless he shall have been first
accepted by the Governor of this State, upon a
call under a requisition of the President of the
United States made upon the Governor direct
for troops for the service of the United States ;
and no volunteer soldier shall be allowed by
the Governor to leave the State until fully
armed and equipped for effective service.
SEC. 13. The Governor is hereby authorized,
to draw on his warrants from the State Trea
sury a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dol
lars, to be paid out of the moneys in the trea
sury not otherwise appropriated, for the com
pensation of such persons as he may require to
serve the Commonwealth in the military or
ganization of the State or the General Govern
ment, and for the expenses incident to the
business in which they may be employed ; and
he is hereby authorized to cause the same to be
duly settled quarterly with the Auditor General
of the State, by causing the same to be ac
counted for, specifically, in all instances where
in the expenditure thereof may, in his judg
ment, be made public, and by making a certi
ficate of the amount of such expenditures as he
may deem proper for the interest of the State
and National Governments, not to make pub
lic ; and every such certificate shall be deemed
a sufficient voucher for the sum or BUMS therein
expressed to have been expended.
Snc. 14. That the Associate Judges of the
Court of Common Pleas and the County Cora
mis.sioners of the several counties of this Com
monwealth shall constitute a board of relief, to
meet monthly, or as often as they find neces
sary, at the office of the Commissioners, and,
upon - reasonable claim or suggestion, furnish
such amount of support or relief in each indi
vidual case as they may deem equitable and
proper for the families, or for persons resident
in their respective counties, heretofore in any
degree dependent upon such volunteers as have
been enrolled and mustered into service from
day of
EMI
their several counties, under orders froin the
Governor of the Commonwealth during the ex
istence of the present exigencies of the General
Government, the claims or• suggestions for such
relief to be made in writing, setting, forth the
facts of the case, with such proofs and verifica
tions as the-board may require; and to be fded
in the office as vouchers for any payments
which may be made thereon, payments for rre
lief to te made by orders drawn in the usual
form, with an indorsement on the back of each,
" issued by the board of relief," which indorse
ment shall be.signed by one of . the Associate
Judges, and all the vouchers and the orders is
sued thereon shall be duly audited by the
County Auditors or other proper authorities,
and. published in the annual statement of the.
public expenditures of said counties ; .if it shall,
be found requisite by the Commissioners of any
county within this Commonwealth, they are
hereby authorized and empowered to make a
temporary loan, or loans, at a rate of interest
not exceeding seven per centum per annum, to
carry into effect the measures of relief provided
by this Act. Provided, That all arrangements
made by the several counties of this Common
wealth for the support of the families of the
volunteers mustered into service, are hereby le
galized and declared to be in full force, until
the provisions of this section are carried into
effect by the several counties of this Common
wealth.
Sc.a 15. That it shall be lawful for the
proper authorities of any county within
this Commonwealth to assess and levy a
tax for the payment of such appropriations as
may have been or may hereafter be made by
such authorities for the relief of volunteers or
of their families or both, which volunteers shall
have been or may be received into the service
of this State or of the United States in the pre
sent exigency of the country: Provided, That
such assessment shall not in any one year ex
ceed two and one-half mill upon the dollar of
the taxable property of such county ; And pro
vided further, Tnat all loans heretofore negotiat
ed or moneys borrowed by any county, city or
borough for the purposes aforesaid, be and the
same are hereby ratified and confirmed, and
the bonds or other evidences of indebtedness
issued or to be issued•therefor are hereby made
good and valid, and that . all appropriations
heretofore made or to be made by county com
missioners or municipal authorities, for the
purpose of arming or equipping volunteers, or
for the relict of their families, are hereby le
galized and shall be allowed them on the settle
ment of their accounts, as other payments are
by law allowed.
Sac. 16. That in case any soldier shall die
after being mustered into the service of the
United States or of this State,, leaving a widow
and minor children or a minor child under the
age of fourteen years, the mother of such minor
or minors shall receive eight dollars per month
from this State, for the term of five years, ma,
less all such minors shall, before the expiration
of said five years, be of the age of fourteen,
t . 'lie l ri l nitecr States. If such widowdieoTinarry
before the expiration of said five years, such
pension, from the time of such death or mar
riage, shall go to .the support of such minor
child or children as are then living.
SEC. 17. That any district attorney or other
county or municipal officer of this !Common
wealth who may have enlisted and been receiv
ed into the service of the State or the United
States as a soldier or officer for any part of the
term for which such attorney or officer shall
have been elected, may appoint a deputy who,
with the approval of the court of common pleas
of the county or district, shall discharge the
duties of the said district attorney or other:
county or municipal officer during such term
of service ; Provided, That nothing herein con
tained be construed to discharge the bail to the
Commonwealth of any such district attorney or
county or municipal officer ; Provided further,
That the provisions of this section shall not ex
tend to aldermen or justices of the peace.
Sac. 18. That all incorporated Universities,
Colleges and Academies in this Commonwealth
are hereby aut)torized to establish in connec
tion with their'-several institutions a military
professorshiplor the education of young men
in military discipline and the art of war.
Sac. 19. That the commander-in-chief, in
conjunction with the officers composing the
grand staff of the militia of this Commonwealth,
are hereby authorized and required to organize
a military corps, to be called the Reserve Vol
unteer Corps of the Commonwealth, and to be
composed of thirteen regiments of infantry, one
regiment of cavalry and one regiment of light
artillery. The said regiments shall severally
be composed of companies of like number and
to be armed and equipped, clothed, disciplined,
governed and officered as similar troops in the
service of the United States, and shall be en
listed in the service of the State for a peripd
not exceeding three years or for the war, unless
winker discharged, and shall be liable to be
called into the service of this State at such
times as the commander-in-chief may deem
their services necessary for the purpose of sup
pressing insurrections or to repel invasions, and
further to be liable to be mustered into the
service of the United States at such times as
requisitions may be made by the President of
the United States.
SEc. 20. That the commander-in-chief, in
conjunction with the officers aforesaid, shall
cause two or more camps of instruction, not
exceeding eight, to be formed in different sec
tions of the State, for the accommodation and
instruction of said troops, and the Governor
shall appoint suitable officers or drill masters,
with the rank and pay of captain, whose duty
it shall be to instruct said troops in the milita
ry art, conforming as near as may be to the
plan of instruction, rules, regulations and dis •
cipline adopted for similar troops in the service
of the United States. •
SEC. 21. That the commander-in-chief shall
cause the troops aforesaid to be drilled and in
structed in such encampments for and during
such periods of time as he may deem necessary
to perfect them in the military art.
Ssc. 22. That the said corps shall receive the
same pay and rations when under such instruc
tions in said camps, or in the active service of
the Unitsd States, as similar troops receive
when in the service of the United States, and
that said troops shall, when not under such in
struction in camp, or in the service of the State
or United States, at all times hold themselves
in readiness at their respective residences to be
called into the service of the State, or upon re
quisition of the President into the. service, of
the United States, and shall be required to pro
vide and keep in repair suitable Armories for
the safe keeping and preservation of their arms
and accoutrements.
Sze. 23. That it shall be the duty of the com
mander-in-chief and adjutant general, to pro
cure and furnish arms and accoutrements and a
uniform dress suitable for said troops, at the
charge of the State, and the captains of the
several companies composing said regiments
shall be required to receipt to the adjutant,gen
end for said arras, accoutrements and uniform
dress, and shall further give bond to the Com
monwealth, with surety in such sum as the
Governor shall direct, to be approved .by the
president judge of the court of common pleas
of the county in which such captains may re
side, conditioned for the safe keeping and de
livery over to the adjutant general of such
arms and accoutrements ae may be received by
them for their respective , companies, upon de
mand legally made by the adjutant general,
and the said bonds when . so approved shall be
filed in the office. of the adjutant general.
Sue. 24. That the saveral companies and-re
giments composing said volunteer corps. shall
be entitled to elect, and the Governor shall
commission, officers similar in number and
rank to those allowed like troops in the army
of the United States Provided, That the Gov
ernor shall have power to appoint and commis
sion chaplains for said corps, and to designate
their rank.
Sao. 26. That no troops shall -be kept in
camp longer than three months at any one
time, except the Cioiernor shall, upon the ex
piration of said three months, deem the longer
continuance of said troops necessary for the
protection of. the Commonwealth, or shall have
a requisition, for troops from the President of
the United. States.
Sze. 26. That the commander-in-chief, in
conjunction with the grand staff aforesaid, are
hereby authorized and empowered to make and
adopt all needful rules and regulations for the
speedy and efficient organization of said re
serve volunteer corps, and for arming and
equipping the same with the most approved
style of arms and equipments, and the officers
and rank and file composing said volunteer
corps shall be sworn or affirmed to support the
constitution of this State, and the constitution
of the United States.
Szo. 27. That the Governor and. Adjutant
General be and are hereby authorized and re
quired to procure and furnish at the earlist pos
sible time after the troops provided for in this
bill shall have been supplied, not exceeding one
thousand stand of modern approved arms and
accoutrements for each of the counties of this
Commonwealth bordering on the Maryland,
Delaware and Virginia lines, to be received by
the county commissioners of the respective
counties for the purpose of arming organized
troops for the defence of said counties, and'
for the such other military service contiguous
to their borders, as they may be called upon to
perform, and - the, county commissioners of said
county shall respectively execute a bond in the
name and behalf of such county, in such sum
as the Governor 'shall direct, conditioned for
the safe keeping and delivery over to the Ad
jutant General all such arms arid accoutrements
as may be received by them for the purpose
aforesaid at such times as the Governor may
direct, and the bonds so executed shall be filed
in the office of the Adjutant General. .
Sze. 28. That the Governor and the Adjutant
General be, and are hereby authorized and re
quired as soon as possible to procure suitable
.
volunteer companies of
.this. State now or here
after to be regularly organized under existing
laws, and further to collect and contract for the
..to
of all such military arms belonging
..to !the State as-are. or-have beeome deficient
'and unfit for: modern service •:. And provided fur
.th4r, . That before.any arms are delivered to any
volunteerlcampanies, or home guards, they shall
severally be sworn or affirmed to support the
Constitution of this State and the Constitution
of the United States, and to obey all lawful or
ders of such officers as may be placed over them
by proper authority : And provided further, That
so much of any law heretofore existing authori
zing members of volunteer companies:to receive
pay for any military parading not in the actual
service of the State, is hereby suspended during
the existence' of the present war, and the mill
tory-tax now imposed by the laws of this Cora
mopmealth.shall be collected and paid into. the
Treasury of the Commonwealth to. meet the ex
penses
of the militia mustered into active ser
vice. ELISHA W. DAVIS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
• .L. W. HALL, •
Speaker of the Senate. •
. Approved the fifteenth day of May A. D.,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
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THE REMAINS OF WASHINGTON.
Probable Stoppage of the Mail Ser-
vice in the South.
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The government has been requested by the
Baltim re and Ohio Railroad Company 1 o take
possession of the whole of their road. But it
has not complied. Doubtless, when it is need
ed for military purposes, Gen. Scott will order
its occupation.
Two pleasure yachts, one belonging to young
Bennett, of New York, and one to Mr. Ives, of
Providence, have been accepted by the govern
ment for the Revenue Service, and their owners
have been commissioned as Lieutenants in the
Revenue Marine corps.
The arrest of Ross Winans will probably not
be followed by any very serious measures. It
is positively asserted that no evidence can be
obtained of his having done anything treason
able.
The troops here continue in good health,and
they are constantly improving in discipline.
The rumored removal of Washington's ashes
from Mount Vernon is untrue.
bam tinting pm
flaying procured Steam Power Primes, we are
prepared to execute JOB and BOOK PIIINTING of every
description, cheaper that it can be done at any other *s;
iablishmentin the country
RATES 01 ADVERTISING.
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Bees or more than four constitute a square,
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iMrltusineas notices inserted in the Lereal odusm,oir
before Marriages and Deaths, FIVE CENTS Pat LINSI
or each Insertion.
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*or Marriages and Deaths to be charged as regular
advertißements. -
It is believed here that ten thousand Penn
sylvanians are moving towards the Maryland
line.
The transfer of General Butler, to Fortress
Monroe, is considered' indicative of some im
portant Movement there, shortly. Additional
men and large quantities of munitions were
thrown into that fort yesterday.
The rumored change of ax-Vice President
Breckinridge is not credited here.
Ex-Senator Cooper, of Pennsylvania, has
been commissioned as Colonel f an Indepen
dent Regiment from Maryland, which has been
accepted by the Government.
There was some uneasiness, yesterday even
ing, owing Lo repOrts that a Southern army was
encamped behind Arlington Heights. The ar
tillery batteries were held ready for service all
night. But there was no need of them, and
the reports are probably unfounded.
Gen. Scott's health is good, and his spirits
do not fail him. He is managing the war
movements with all his characteristic skill and
wisdom.
WA9HINGTON, May 16.--Two spies from the
South have been arrested here and are in jail
awaiting trial.
Scouts who have retuined from the Virginia
side do not confirm the tumors of hostile de
monstrations beyond the heights opposite
Washington. But it is not safe for any one to
trots the liver into the woods on Arlington
Heigh is
It is uow understood that troops will be or
dered here radial . ), from Philadelphia and New
York.
In an account in the New Oreans Picayune
of the capture of United States troops iu Texas,
the names of certain officers are given as being
on parole, amongst them that of Major Cun
ningham, Paymaster. The Intelligencer of to
day sass thatthe Major was taken prisoner,but
gave no parole.
Wm. G. Coffin of Indiana, has been appoint
ed to the southern superintendency of Indian
affairs, in place of Rector. Ile left to-day for
the country west of the Mississippi with in
structions respecting the welfare of the Chero
kee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and other Indian
tribes.
Indian tribes, recently returned to their homes
were, while here, favorably impressed with
friendly feelings of the government for their
prosperity. They will be reassured through
kir. Coffin that it is neither designed nor desit
rable to interfere in any way whatever with
their domestic institutions including slavery,
while they will be convinced that it is to their
interest to forever remain on terms of peace
with the Federal Government.
The public are aware that some of these In
dians have been tampered with by disunionistc
The new Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Dr.
Dale, assiduously applies himself to the work
of preserving the quiet of the Indians generel
ly in view of dangers to which they are ex
posed from the designs of white men who Beek
through them to further the secession inter
ests.
WASHINGTON, May 16,—None of the MAMA
germ of the Mount Vernon Society residing
here have any knowledge of the reported re
moval of the remains of Washington, beyond
what has bail published in the newspapers.
They reasonably presume that if the facts were
as reported those in charge of that place would
before now have so informed them.
A. G. CURTIN
The deed of purchase gives John A. Washing
ton the possession of the tomb, and the privi
leve of enclosing half an acre on which to ihter
the remains of members of the Washington
family, but from this he has no legal right 'to
remove the dust of the "Father of the Coun
try" to any other. This is evident from 'an
examination of the deed In the possession of
Mr. Riggs, treasurer of the Mount Vernon As
sociation.
Owing to interruptions by the Virginia au
thorities of means of conveying the mails
from Norfolk to Hampton Roads, and from
Old Point to Eastville, though specially for ac
commodation to citizens of that State, the
Post Master General has annulled the contract.
From representations made to the Depart
ment it is probable that for similar reasons
nearly all, if not the entir river mail service
will be officially discontinued in the course of
a few days in the secession States.
The marine regiment Bailed to-night in the
steamer Coatzacoalcoa for Washington. The
steamer City of New York went ashore near
Hell Gate. She got off slightly damaged.
THE NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS.
ELMRA, May 16
Ninety additional companies of New York
volunteers have been formed into seven regi
ments. The others will be formed into regi
ments as fast as possible.
THE Memphis Avalanche says that a tragic af
fair occurred at Cairo one night last week. A
soldier belonging to one of the companies sta
tioned there insulted the - wife of one of the
citizens, and Colonel Prensiss, on being inform
ed of the circumstance, sent four or five men
:to arrest him. The soldier, however, refused
to obey the order, and drew a pistol, but, be
fore he could fire, the squad delivered a volley,
one ball striking him in the head, another in
the breast, and still another in the stomach,
killing him instantly.
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