Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1862-12-17
VOL lO---NO. 2.

ded himself that the revolt had not lcns
before been planned dependent on the
election of any Northern mani, II is e:
likely that he viii ever make second
convert to that opinion. ?. He only
gives los, 600 as the number cf aTns
transferred, emitting the 10000 rifles
B. He says thai the muskets EC5,01O)
were condemned, and that purchasers
could not be found for many of them az
$3.50 each. Now, here is an official
statement, El2da 10 me eighteen months
ago Cjust received from my papers At
Washington), showing $4,000 OF those
arms were percussion muskets' proba-
bly, entirely new, and 10000 Others. ter
med ssmussets aiterei 20 percussion"
with 10000 percussion rifies"-Ect one
of the ll0, 900 was ever - condemned
but all precisely Ike most of the small
arms issued TO our troops Irregular and
volnnteerl, IN 1861. 4. Mr.. Buchanan
further intima;cs that those arms were
transferred 10 equalize. IN some de-
gree, The deposits among the different
States, as II these had any State pride In
allowing storage TO the property of the
L
/ its. If 50. WHY not establish storage
( places IN the great States os Ohio, Indi-
ana AM Illinois, within which :he Uni
( TED States has had no deposit OF arms and
/ 10 arsenal , Nh. buchanan supposcs
me 10 brand the transferred arms with tho
. epiihe; - stolen" In nv reioinder 20 him
/ 1 nowhere use that terIa, because / knew
the transaction, though very quietly con-
( Quoted. was officially recorded, and the
/ freight paid for 10y the United States,
whose property the arms continued 10 be
f. IN their neEE de,sosiiories-
Mr.. Buchanan mikes up-Perhaps
ought rather TO say seems 10 oonfound-
quite different class Of arms with ths
foregoing, viz. ;he quotas Of arms distri-
buted among the several States under the
annual approximations towards arTaing the
whole body of the militia of The Union
Thus he savs:-.sThe Sci.ihern States
received in 1860 less instead Of more than
the quotas OF arms 10 which they were en-
titled bv law This Is most strange,
cOntrastcd wiih information given TO NE
last wear. with and telegram Jusi recciy-
ed from Washington and high officer
not of the Ordnance Bureau-in these
words and figures -
''Rhode Island, Delewarc and Texas
had not drawn NJ The end of (lS60) their
annual Quotas Of arms for that year, and
Massachusetts,, Tennessee and Kentucky
only in part; Virginia, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana,
Mississippi, and Kansas were, by the or
der of the Secretary OF War, supplied
with their quotas eighteen sixty-one (ls6l)
in advance, and Pennsylvania and Mary
land in part
This advance of arms TO eight South
ern States Is a sufficient commentary by
itself on the transfer, about the same
time, of the IL, GOO muskeis and rifles.
In respect to the heavy cannon ordered
from Pittsburg TO the gulf of Mexico
Mr. Bncanan has shown me that was
in error IN saving that their shipment VIZ,
colInterTnanded In March instead Of jan
uarv. 1861. This was the only inma-
t-Tial part OF my statement, for l va.
correct in the declarations that i gave IN
formation 20 Mr.. Secretary Holt that tn
shipment had commenced, and that b.
ordered the guns 10 be re-landed, anC
stopped the robbery
i. WTSFIEID SCoTTs
New York Dec ,, 1862.