BY S. J. BOW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., AVEMESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1862.
YOL. S.-NO.
THE JOURNAL.
A GLANCE AT THEAFFAIB? OF EUROPE.
Italy. The Italian Parliament has decided
bv a laree majority, that Roma is tbe Capita
of the Kinsdom ot Italy. The supporters, of
Fio Noao and of the temporal sovereignty
will'smifo in bitterness at this decision. Time
Is only serving to show the ex-King o( Naples
bow utterly hopeless his cause has become
His brigand friends from Spain, win sympa
thized even to the laying down of their lives
in his service his reckless recationists at
.Naples, and the Committee at Paris who stim
ulated and guided their policy have all pro
vel inefficient to serve his schemes; which are
now utterly hopeless. Under these circum
stances it would appear that all hope of divid
ing Italy into a number of Confederate States,
t:nder a Papal head as an honorary President,
most have disappeared from the mind of Na
polcon ; and as he cannot, in the present ag
itated condition of Austria, dread much in
u-ilerence from that quarter, the delay of the
Frrnch troops in Runic can only be accounted
for on the principle that tho Emperor desires
It such delay to show the Pontiff and the
Catholic Powers of Europe that they have
really nothing todread from the policy of Vic
tor Emmanuel, who is willing to acknowledge
the spiritual supremacy ot his Holiness, and to
insure him a competent regal support for his
establishment in the Vatican.
Russia. The Emperor of Russia is evident
ly tired of the tremendous responsibility con
nected with despotism. He is about carrying
Ins subjects through the most difficult stage
in the progress of any people, from abject sub
jiigation to the will of an autocrat to the en
joyment of the blessings of representative
government. He is inaugurating a Ministry
id which the heads of departments shall be re
sponsible, and accordingly these officials shall
be invested with constitutional powers. So
far, therefore, the autocracy of the Czar will
be voluntarily abridged, and a constitutional
government thus commenced must necessarily
aad speedily feel the modifying effect of the
commercial classes, the laud holders, and all
who contribute to the financial support of tho
empire. The Emperor is moving in the right
direction, and all his acts are indicative of
ereat practical wisdom. The troubles con
nected with the educational question are not
yet set at rest, and affairs in Poland are fn
great confusion. Banishment to Siberia and
confinement for life in tho mines are of fre
quent occurrence, and yet the national Jyearn
ing of the Poles refuses to expire.
Sweden. While all the world is moving,
Sweden refuses to be left behind, and accord
ingly the Monarch has commenced a system
cf reforms in tho Constitution, which, if suc
cessfully carried out, will be productive of
much good. The legislative bodies are com
posed of the houses of the nobles, the cleigy
and tho peasants. Those bodies have been
meeting in an irregular manner and at long
intervals. The King has resolved to intro
duce a system which will approximate to that
of England, and in which a responsible Minis
try shall be subjected to a test by the Legisla
ture, thus securing a conformity in their
measures to the will of the people through
their representatives.
Ireland. In Ireland the real agitation,
which is significent of an earnest desire on the
part of the Catholic clergy, is progressing.
The Irish Secretary, Sir Robert Peel, is busily
engaged raising subscriptions on behalf of the
Queens Colleges, and for this purpose he ap
plied to the Mayor of Limerick and his friends
among others, for sympathy and aid. Forth
with the Mayor and fifteen magistrates of Lim
erick and the country around reply to the Sec
retary, denouncing the system on which the
Queen's Colleges are founded, refusing all aid
to them, and roundly telling Sir Robert that
the Catholic University must have a charter,
and that it is his duty and the Government's
to found such a chartered establishment as
ill enable the Church of Rome in Ireland to
conducMheireducational affairs and inculcate
their tenants, under the auspices of the Par
liament and Crown, in such a manner as they
way approve. Ireland ha3 met with a great
loss by the sudden removal of Prof. Donnovan,
of Queen's College, Belfast, the great Celtic
scholar, who had highly distinguished hini
8!f by hi3 translation of the "Four Masters."
The treasury of learned notes which he ap
pended to this work is one of the most remark
M accumulation of historical, auiiquarian,
biographical and genealogical learning which
Wen published in modern times. His de
se was sudden and -quite unexpected, and
t!le attendance at his funeral of the heads of
t!je Universities and different Colleges, the
eminent lawyers and clergymen of different
"nominations, showed the high esteem in
'ch the deceased Professor was held.
Haxcock On the 4th, while the 5th Con
necticut regiment was protecting the laborers
io were rebuilding the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad near Hancock, were attacked by 6,000
rebels and forced to retire to this side of tho
Potomac. The rebels then destroyed tha rail
ed and telegraph and threw a nnmber of
bU into Hancock, after which they retired,
eing dona little or no damage. Our troops
a been reinforced.
The Secret History of the Great Re
hellion. The New York Tribune publishes
at length the Constitution and the Minutes o
the Southern Rights Association of St. Helena
Parish, South Carolina, during the years 1850
and 18-31, by which it seems that its members
comprising some of tho most influential in
South Carolina, years before the Republican
party had a name, ten years beforo it came in
to power, moved, so far as there seems to have
been any immediate motive, by the events
which led to the Compromise of 18-30, and the
Compromise itself, bound themselves together
to establish a Southern Confederacy. Among
tbe names signed to this association is that of
Mr. Trescott. Assistant Secretary of State un
der Mr. Marcy, and R. V. Barnwell, member
of Congress from that State. This ascocia-
tion was doubtless only one of the many which
existed in South Carolina.
Another Victory in South Carolina. By
the arrival of tho Vanderbilt at Xew York, we
have date's from our forces in South Carolina
to the 3d inst. General Steven., with about
four thousand 'five hundri d Federal troops,
advanced on the mainland on the 1st, and took
possession of the rebel batteries after a short
resistance of the rebels, the brigade being as
sisted by the gunboats, which shelled the bat
teries. Gen. Stevens then followed up to
within six miles of the Charleston Railroad,
the rebels retiring to their batteries, which are
said to be very strong, on the railroad. The
rebel force was estimated at from 19,000 to
12,000 men, under Gen. Pope, and their loss
is not known. The loss on the Union side was
eight wounded, among whom was Major Wat
son, of the Eighth Michigan.
jvextfcky. rrora jventucKy tha news is
encouraging. The bridge over Green river
has been finished, and the principal portion of
General Buell'a command have crossed it, and
are slowly marching towards Bowling Green,
where.at the latest accounls,GeneraI Johnston,
the rebel commander, had not over thirty-five
thousand men. As General Buwll's offensive
column will number from 00,000 to 80,000 as
brave and true soldiers as can be found, it is
not hard to conjecture the result. Col. Gar
field's brigade, which had been sent to look
after Humphrey Marshall, at last accounts was
marching on Prestonburg, driving tho rebels
before them ; whilo. Gen. Schoepff holds Zol
licoffur in check, and keeps bim from going to
the relief of Bowling Green.
The Union Sentimfnt. Of the Union sen
timent in Richmoid, Mr. Gillette (one of the
released prisoners) speaks with the greatest
positiveness. He says the Union feeling is
great, and would be effective for the suppres
sion of rebellion, if tho whole of Virginia was
not under the heels of the 150,000 ruffians sent
from the Cotton States. The State is held
down by terrorism , and a savage discipline
maintains the Rebel army in position through
privations and discontent, enough to try the
best troops. Another fact significant of the
feelings of the rebels is, that the Virginia
postmasters are prohibited from taking any
currency sive Federal specie.
A Fight at Huntersville. The skirmish
in Western Vliginia, alluded to in our last,
was a brilliant little affair. General Milroy,
hearing that a force of over 700 rebels, with a
large amount of stores, were at Huntersville,
determined to defeat them, and if possible
capture all they had with them. Accordingly
he despatched 750 Federal troops, consisting
of infantry and cavalry, who, after an hour's
skirmishing, defeated the rebels and captured
their stores and clothing to the amount of
$80,000. The loss on the side of the rebels
was eight killed and wounded.
The Gunboat Expedition. The gunboats
that are to operate on the Mississippi will have
a pretty difficult obstacle to overcome, if the
reports which come from Cairo be true, to the
effect that six hundred submarine batteries
have been placed in the river by the rebeis
between Cairo and Columbus which are in
tended to blow up our boats if they venture
within their products.
Cotton Seed. Many applications having
been made to Secretaries Seward and Chase,
by citizens of Illinois, in reference to cotton
seed, they have promptly offered their aid in
procuring it from the vicinity of Fort Royal.
It appears that a large number of acres will
be planted by the farmers of Illinois the com
ing year, if the seed can be procured.
Army Contracts. Tho day of speculations
in army contracts is drawing to a close. Tho
War Department will hereafter require parties
offering to make muskets, to be owners of
machine shops.and possess in mouey,skIll,and
experience, the guarantees that they will punc
tually and completely fill contracts.
Charleston. The rebels of Charleston, no
doubt, anticipating an attack on that place,
have removed Colonel Corcoran and a number
of Federal prisoners from the Charleston jail
to Columbia, the capital of the Palmetto State.
Dayid Confer, dispatcher for the Penn'a
Railroad at Huntingdon, was so severely in
jured, several weeks since, by being caught
between two cars, that ho died in about two
hours afterwards. 'V , ,t . -
Mexico. It is said, that Mexico has done
everything in her power to satisfy the de
mands of England and France, and it is sup
posed that those nations will be satisfied with
seizing and holding a port as a guaranty, until
their claims are fully met. Spain, in this
case, will bo left to her own unassisted re
sources. The hereditary hatred of tho Mexi
cans for Spain will blaze out with the old fe
rocity, if they have only that power to con-,
tend with. The Spaniards will find them
selves cooped up at Vera Cruz, until the an
nual fuver decimates their ranks, and then
they will be glad to patch up an inglorious
peace and retire.
The Rebel Army. The Richmond papers
are growling considerable in regard to the con
dition of their troops. Tho Examiner says
that there is "too much drunkenness among
the officers on the Potomac" that the men,
"living In idleness, grovelling in their tents,
with no other occupation than what is afford
ed by a greasy pack of cards" is demoralizing
the army and that their young men are un
willing to betake themselves to tho wretched,
1, .. H 1 ? J . ...
wuu-ieu me oi airt, vacancy auu idleness, in
tho camps. Such is the condition of their ar
my according to the Richmond papers, and
truly a sad picture it is.
Ffom Canada. The delusion lately prevail
mg among the Canadians, that the United
States purposed commencing hostilities
gainsi ineir country, lias, lor the most part,
been happily dispelled by the able and pacific
letter of Secretary Seward to Lord Lyons, on
the Trent affair. Nevertheless, that portion
of the Canadian press which have always been
extolling tho rebels and bitterly denouncing
our Government are still busy at work exhort
ing their people to enlist for the purpose "of
repelling a raid of Federal troopsjon Canada
as soon as the civil war comes to an end.
An Incident. Among the rebel troops op
posite Washington is a "fierce" company
known by the name ot "Tigers." They hail
from New Orleans. Two of them were recent
ly shot for some ontrago committed by them,
of which no mention has been made in the
Southern papers therefore all is conjecture
as toils nature. One morning shortly after
the execution, "as a sequel," the officer of
tho day and officer of the guard, whowere in
stsumental in the arrest of tho "Tigers," were
found with their throats cut.
Utah. A mass meeting was held at Great
Salt Lake, Utah, on the 7th, at which resolu
tions were passed relative to the admisiion of
that Territory into the Union as a State. Del
agates were chosen to meet similar delegates
from the different counties on the 20th, to
draft and adopt a Constitution and form of
State goverqment, to be submitted to the
people for their acceptance or rejection
Congress will be memorialized for the admis-
sion of Utah during the present session.
A Rebel Prison. A great prison is being
built in Salisbury, Is . C, inclosing 15 acres
The building is capable of containing 1,500
persons. There are now in Richmond 1,020
prisoners ; and there have Ueen sent to Raleigh
32, to New-Orleans 496, to Charleston 1-30, to
Tuscaloosa 500, Salisbury 17C,aud 43 in jail
making in all 2,570. There have also been
released and sent home 56, died in prison 100,
and 8 have escaped. The number that died
in tho Hospitals is not given.
DEsroNDixG. The Richmond Exrinincr of
the 2d says ; "The year closed under gloomy
auspices ; with a check at Drainesville and a
rumored disaster in Missouri : Tho year
which yesterday began has opened with fcvil
tidings. We fear that there is no doubt of
the fact that the Northern Union has consent
ed to the surrender of Mason and Slide!!: and
with that event all hope of an immediate alli
ance between'the Southern Confederacy and
Great Britain must cease."
A boy named Lloyd, whilst playing with a
pistol on Nav Years day, in Hollidaysburg,
had his hand badly shattered by a premature
discharge of the weapon. Boys should re
member that gunpowder and pistols are dan
gerous playthings.
New Orleans. The rebels in that city as
sert that they have thirty thousand troops
there for the defence of tho city, and that
twenty thousand more are within short call.
The fortifications,they say,mount four hundred
cannon.
From all portions of the great West intelli
gence brings favorable accounts of tho growing
wheat crop, and it is stated as a general fact
that, at this season of the year, appearances for
an abundant harvest were nevermore promising
Matamoras. Late advices state that the
English fleet had taken possession of Matamo-.
ras last week. Tho city is in Mexico, on the.
Rio Grande, and nearly opposite Brownsville,
Texas.
The Toronto Leader says a hundred thousand
volunteers will be in arms in Canada before the
dawn of spring, and that twenty five thousand
regulars will be ready to support them.
It is reported that our troops have taken pos
session of Portsmouth, N. C, and that there
ate ten Yankee steamers in Famlico sound.
FIRST ANNUAL MESSAGE OF
ANDREW G. CUIITIN,
Governor of Pennsylvania.
To the Honorable the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the Commonwealth, of Pen
sylvania, Gentlemen : It has pleased Divine Provi
dence, during the last season, to give us abun
dant crops, unbroken peace within our borders,
unanimity among our people, and thus to en
able this Commonwealth to do her full duty
to the country, to herself, and posterity. For
these blessings we have cause to be grateful.
Tho balance in the Treasury on the 30;h
Nov., lfcGO, was $081,413.08. The receipts
during- the fiscal year ending Nov., 30th, 1861,
were as follow : From ordinary sources 3,017,-
040,0, irom temporary loan under Act of
April 12, 18G1, at 0 per cent, interest, and ne
gotiated at par 45,000, from 6 per cent. loan
under Act May 15. 1801, also negotiated at
par, 2,012,150, from Society .of Cincinnatus
bVV, trom United Stites on account of military
expenses 606,000, from Pay Masters and others,
reiundcd o2,229,45 ; making $0,743,523,02.
Total in Treasury for fiscal year ending Nov.
30, 1861, including balance in Treasury Nov.
30, I860", 7,424,0-38,10.
And the payments -as follows: For ordinary
purposes $3,144,480,34, for military expenses
under Acts April 12, and May 15 and 16, 1861,
2,333,872,04, lor amount of loan under Act of
April 12, 1861, repaid 375,000, making5.773,-3-32,38
; leaving balance in Treasury, Nov. CO,
1861, 1,5-31,505.72.
Public Debt Funded and Unfunded. Re
ceived from temporary loan, under Act of
April 12, 1861, 475,000 ; repaid as abovo 375,
000. Outstsnding Nov. 30, 1861, $100,000.
Received from loan under Act May 13, 1861,
$2,612,150. Amount of public debt funded
and unfunded, Nov. 30. 1860, 37,960,847,50.
Paid during fiscal year 101,331,42. Remaining
unpaid, (exclusive of military loans above
mentioned,) Nov. 30, 1861, $37J868,516,08.
Receipts and Expenditures of Military
Loans. Receipts from military loan under
Act April 12, 1861, 475,000, under Act May
15, 1861, 2,612,150, from Pay Masters and
others refunded 32,229,45, making $3,119,-379,4-5.
Paid for military expenses, as above,
2,353 872,04, paid for redeeming loan, Act
April 12, 375,000, making $2,728,872,04; Un
expended military loans $390,507,41.
Receipts and Expenditures of Ordinary
Revenue. Balance in Treasury, from ordina
ry sources, Nov. 1800, 681,433,08, received
from ordinary sources during fiscal year 3,017,
545,57, making $3,699,078,65. Paid for ordi
nary expenses, as above $3,144,480,31. Unex
pended of ordinary revenue 554,598,31, re
ceived from U. S. Government on account of
military expenditure 606,000, received from
Society of Cincinnatns 500. Balance in Treas
ury, as above $1,551,605,72.
It will be observed that the fiscal year ends
on the 30th of November, and the sinking
fund year on the first Monday in September,
which accounts for the apparent deficiency in
the amonnt of debt paid as stated In the Treas
urer's report, and by the Commissioners of tho
Sinking Fund. The State has on hand a sur
plus of uniforms and equipments which costs
about $190,000, which the United States have
agreed to take and pay for at cost. Arrang
ments have been made with the general gov
ernment lor the reimbursement of the military
expenses of the State since the 27th of July
last. The bills as paid are forwarded to Wash
ington and paitial repayments have already
been made.
It will be observed that tho receipts from
the ordinary sources of revenue for the year
1801 have decreased, but as payments have
been made on some of them sinco tho settle
ment at tho end of the fiscal year on the first
ot December, and more may reasonable be ex
pected in addition to" the payments to be made
by the National Government as hereinafter
stated tbe balance available in the Treasury
will be largely increased.
It will also be observed that it has not yet
been found necessary to call in all of the loan
effected under the Act of, the 18th of May last.
In some items tho ordinary revenue of 1861
was in excess of that of 1860.
The loan authorized by the act of May 15th
1861, was taken at par. This occurrence,
most gratifying under all the then existing
circumstances of embarrassment, affords tri
umphant evidence of the confidence of the
people in the stability and integrity of the
Commonwealth and of their determination to
support the Government.
The oparations of the Sinking Fund during
the last year have been as shown by my Proc
lamation of 5th September last.
Debt redeemed from 4th September, 1860,
to 1st September, 1861. Of stock loans 300,-
050, interest on certificates 3,330,01, relief
notes 421, Total, $303,801,01.
I refer to the reports of the State Treasurer
and Auditor General for the details of the
financial affairs of the Commonwealth. The
reports of the Surveyor General aud State Li
brarian will exhibit the state ot the Depart
ments under their care.
The Commissioners of the sinking Fund dur
ing the last spring received from the Philadel
phia aud Erie (late Sunbury and Erie) Rail
road Oompany lorty bonds of that Company lor
$100,000 each, and a mortgage to secure the
same executed in conformity with the third
section of tho act of March the 7th, 1861.
That company has deposited in the State
Treasniy its bonds to the amount of five mil
lions of dollar, in accordance with tho 6th
section of the same act. Ou the 9th of May
last I granted mr warrant authorizing the
State Treasurer to deliver to the said company
one thousand of said bonds, being to the a
mount of one million of dollars. This war
rant was issued in conformity with the law,
the five per cent bonds mentioned in the fifth
section of the act (except those belonging to
the State and now in the Sinking Fund) hav
ing been previously surrendered and cancelled,
and satisfaction entered of the Record of the
Mortgage , mentioned in said fifth section.
Having received notice frem the company
that tho bonds so delivered to the company or
their proceeds had been appropriated m ac
cordance with tho provisions of the law, on
the 21st of June last I appointed John A.
Wright as Commissioner to examine and to
report to me whether said bonds or tueir
proceeds had been appropriated to the pur
poses required by tbe act. - His report has not
yet been reoeived by me.
It is understood that arrangnients have at
ast been made under which the direct railroad
connection between Philadelphia and Erie
will bo completed within a short time. It is
impossible to estimate too highly the import
ance or this great work to the Commonwealth,
and especially to Philadalphia and Erie and
tho hitherto neglected counties near its route
west of the Susquehanna.
By the act of tho 21st April, 1858, for the
sale of the State canals to the Sunburv and
Erie railroad company it was provided that if
that company should sell said canals for a
greater sum in the aggregate than three and a
half millions of dollars, seventy-five per cen
tum oi such excess should be paid to- the Com
monwealth by a transfer of so much of such
boridsand securitiesas said company should re
ceive for the same and payable in like manner.
The company sold the canals and reported
that the share of the profit on such sale, due
to the Commonwealth was $281,250 of which
3-;ou was paid in casn and lor the remaining
$281,000 the Commonwealth receivad coupon
bonds of the Wyoming canal company to that
amount, being a portion of bonds lor $900,000
issued by that company and secured by a
mortgage of the Wyoming canal, formerly
call the Lower North Branch canal. These
bonds bear an interest of six jer cent, per an
num, payable semi-annually on the 15th of
January and July, and the interest was paid
by the company to January last inclusive.
The interest due in July last has not been paid.
Judgments having been obtained against tho
company on some of the coupons for tho un
paid July interest, a bill in equity was filed in
the supreme court by a bond and stock holder
in which such proceedings were had that by a
decree made on the 2d September last the
property and affairs of the company were
placed in the hands of a receiver.
. A plan has been suggested for the assent of
the stock and bond holders which contemplates
a sale of the eanal under lawful process, and a
purchase of" the same for the purpose of form
ing a new company, of which the capital stock
shall be one million of dollars, divided into
twenty thousand shares of fifty dollars each,
of which each assenting holder of a mortgage
bond for one thousaud dollars shal be entitled
to eighteen shares, and each assenting holder
of fifty shares of stock of the Wyoming canal
company shall be entitled to nine shares. Of
course no officer of the Commonwealth had
authority to assent to the pioposal or in any
way to affect her position. It is believed also
that the plan is not one that ought to be as
sented to by the Commonwealth, and that
under all the circumstances, if the convenience
of individual parties requires a change such as
proposed, the debt due to the Commonwealth
ought to be first paid or fully secured.
I suggest that the Act passed 8th ot April,
1861, entitled, "An Act concerning the sale of
railroads, canals, &c," should be modified so
that in all cases in which a debt may be due
to the Commonwealth by the company as
whose property a public work may lie sold,
the purchasers thereof shall not be entitled
to the benefits and privileges conferred by the
Act unless they shall have first paid the debt
due to tho State,.or secure the same by their
bonds to the Commonwealth secured by
Cist mortgage on the work itself.
I commend the subject to the immediate con
sideration of the Legislature, as an effort may be
made at an early day to enforce a sale of tbe ca
nal, and some provision by law to protect tbe in
terests of the State would in that case be neces
sary. The wicked and monstrous rebellion which
broke out many months ago, has not et been
quelled. Every sentiment of loyalty and pa
triotism demands its effectual suppression.
In my messages of the 9th and 30th of April
last, 1 set tortli at length my views of the char
acter and objects of the contest which is still
pending. Subsequent reflection has confirm
ed me in the correctness ot the opinions then
expressed and to which I refer. In addition
it ought to be understood, that looking to tho
variety and character of her products and in
dustry, her material interest alono would ren
der the preservation of the Uniou from the
present assault upon it, indispensable to
Pennsylvania. She cannot afford to have a
foreign power below or above or bounding her
on the Delaware, the Chesapeak or the Mis
sissippi, and she will never acquiesce in such
a result, whatever may be the oost in men and
money of her resistance to it.
On the 9th of April last I directed the at
tention ot the .Legislature to the necessity
which existed lor an improved military organ
ization, and on the 12th of the same month
the Act entitled "An Act for the better or
ganization of the militia of this Common
wealth" passed, appropriating the sum of
$500,000 for the purpose of organizing, equip
ping and arming tne militia, un the loth of
April the President, by proclamation, called
lor a millitary force of 75,000 men, of which
the quota assigned to Pennsylvania was at
first sixteen (afterwards reduced to fourteen)
regimentes to serve as inlautry or riflemen for
tho term of three months unless sooner dis
charged. This call was enthusiastically re
spouded to by the people of Pennsylvania.
The first military aid from the loyal States,
which the Government received at Washing
ton, was a Pennsylvania corps which arrived
there prior to the 19th ot April. On that day
the passage of other corps from this and other
States through Baltimore was impeded by
force and during nearly two weeks after
wards the communicatian between Washing
ton and the loyal States was almost entirely
cut off. On the 19th I received a request
from the War Department that the troops pre
paring in this State should be clothed, armed,
equipped, subsisted and transported by the
State in consequence of the then inability of
the United States. This request was of course
complied with, and twenty-five regiments,
(being eleven regiments beyond our quota,)
comprising 20,175- men from Pennsylvania
served lor the teim of three months under
the President's proclamation above referred
to. As the furnishing those volunteers with
supplies was necessarily under . the circum
stances a burritxfoperation, and as complaints
were made infegard to them, aud frauds were
alleged to have been perpetrated, 1 appointed
a board of commissioners to investigate tho
whole subject. A copy of their report with
the evidence taken by them has been already
laid before the public. It is the intention of
the Auditor General to open the accounts of
such parties as appear by testimony to have
been overpaid and this course has already
been taken in two of those cases.
On tho expiration of the term of the three
months men in July last, some eight or ten
thousand discharged Pennsylvania volunteers
were thrown into Harrisburg without notice
and detained here, waiting to be paid, for an
average time of .some ten days. :- Their tents,
camp equipage aud cooking utensils had bcen
taken from them at Y illiamsport, Md., and
they arrived here destitute of all means of
shelter and of preparing their food. The
Commissary of the United States furnished
uncooked rations, and under tho circumstances
of emergency I deemed it necessary to mako
arrangements for aiding in the cooking and
baking of the rations, and also for furnishing
meals to such of the regiments as arrived du
ring the night or undercircumstancea requit ing
instant relief. The expenses attending tlieoa
operations amounted so far as ascertained to
$744,20, and I recommend that tbe Legislature
make an appropriation to pay them. It ought
to be stated that these expenses would have
been much largor, but for tho .liberal and
patriotic efforts of the citizens and especially
tho ladies of Harrisburg ; their lree-hauded
hospitality and generous aid to our wearied
and hunitiy soldiers, deserve remembrance
and gratitude.
At the special session of the Legislature
which commenced on the 30th of April last, I
recommended the organization of a reserve
corps, to be armed, equipped, clothed, subsis
ted and paid by the State, and drilled in camps
of instruction, in anticipation of the exigen
cies of the country, and bv the Act of the
15th of May last, such a cotps was directed to
be raised,and a loan of $3,000 ,0U0 was author
ized to defray the expenses of that aud other
military preparations. Men more than suflicent
in number to form some ten regiments of tho
Reserve Corps had, previous to the 15th of
May been accepted by me in pursuance of a
call on me (afterwards rescinded,) for twenty-
nve regiments, and were then already assem
bled and subject to my control. Most of theso '
men volunteered for the Reserve Corps and 1
were immediately organized. The remaining
regimeuts wero rapidly recruited and the
Corps was thus completed, and George A.
McCall, of Chester county, w as commissioned
as Major-Genera!, and assigned to the command
of all the forces raised or to be raised under
tho provisions of the last mentioned act. The
regiments composing the Reserve Corps wero
instructed in f our camps in differeut parts of
the State, until they were taken into the ser
vice of the United States. Two of theso regi
ments, under the commands of Colonels
Charles J. Biddle and Seneca G. Simmons, and
two companies of artillery uuder the command '
of Col. Charles T. Campbell at the pressing
instance of the War Department were sent on
the 22d of June last to the relief of Col. Wal
lace, at Cumberland, and remained for about
six weeks there, and in Western Virginia en
gaged in active operations.
Towards the close of July tbe whole Corps
was called for under requisition, and taken in
to the service of the United States. Within
four days after the disaster at Bull's Run,
eleven regiments of this fine body oi men
(armed, drilled, clothed, equipped, and in all
respects ready for active service,) were in
Washington. The regiments and companies
from Western Virginia and the remaining two
regiments making the whole nnmber of fifteen,
soon joined them there, and they are all now
in service under the command of Gen. McCall,
who has been commissioned as a Brigadier '
General by the United States.
These fifteen regiments contain fifteen thou
sand eight hundred and fifty-six men, and con
stitute a division comprising three biigades, a
regiment of Artillery and one of Cavalry.
The whole expense of raising, clothing, equip
ping, subsisting and paying the Reserve Corps
(including the expense of establishing and fif
ing camps of instruction, of recruiting, and
supplying regimental flags, and tile expenses
of the campaign of the two regiments and
companies in Maryland and Western Virginia,
which were all defraved by the State) has
amounted to $255,444,87. This does not in
clude the transportation on Rail Roads, as tho
separation of that account would have been a
work of great labor, nor does It include the
pay of the two regiments during tbe campaign,
but it does include-all the expenses, which
were heavy, of teams and transportation, not
on Railroads, for the two regiments, on tho
camp.iign above mentioned.' Twelve regi
ments ot the Reserve Corps were paid, sub
sisted, &c, by the State to the average dato
of 22, July. The two regiments in Western
Virginia were paid by the State to the date of
their departure from Harrisburg an that expe
dition. The Cavalry regiment was not paid
by the State. It will he perceived that the
whole average expense per man was $53,95.
Previous to the 31st of April last, a regi
ment had been enlisted in the city of Erie
from Northwestern Pennsylvania.' When tho
call was made on me on that day,-for 25 addi
tional regiments, the Erie regiment was or
dered to march to Harrisburg.- The call was
recinded, however, before the regiment reach
ed Pittsburg, and I ordered It to encamp at
that city where it remained until the 30th of
June. The National Government declined to
muster the regiment into Bervice as all exist
ing requisitions made on the State were more
than filled.
Much apprehension existed in the Western
and Southwestern borders of the State, and it
was deemed prudent to retain tbe regiment at
Pittsburg to meet any emergency that might
arise. After the passage of the Act of 15th
May, 1861, it was expected fhat tbe regi
ment would form part of the Reserve Volun
teer Corps; but as the men had bcen a long time
from home and remained inactive in camp,
they declined entering the service, and wero
subsisted and paid up to the 30th of June by
the'State. Two regiments have since been
enlisted from the same part of Pennsylvania
at the city of Erie, one of which has been at
Washington in service since September, and
the other is now ready for marching orders
and it is due to the first Erie regiment to say
that most of the men are now in service.
Further requisitions for sixteen regiments
of Infantry aud two regiments f Cavalry were
shortly afterwards made by tho War Departs
ment. Of these, sixteen have already been
raised and are in the service of the United
States.and the remaining two are in the courso
of organization and nearly ready to march.
In addition to tne requisitions on mo
State, the War Department had given au
thorities to numerous individuals to raise
volunteers in Pennsylvania, but as that
system was found to create much embarrass
ment, a general order was issued by tho War
Department en the 2oth of September last
placing all such organizations under tn con
trol of the Governor, and shortly af terwards a
requisition was made on tbe State to increase
her quota to 75,000 men. Those independent
organizations, br tbey were called, thus be
came Pennsylvania regiments and as complcU
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