The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-01-16

LtJlUllS lDTiuCu tltC AANEcA tSCCs
5,3l0 muskets and rifles WITH accoutremonts
complete were issued to and are now In posses
sion of border counties.
1858 musliets and rifles, and 3,04I setts OF
aeeoutremenis issued to and now in possession
of organized companies. Also $4,000 rounds
Of ammunition issued to border counties and or
ganized companies.
1855 muslsets and 995 sets Of accoutre-
ments, were issued to Colones Brown and
Giants regiments on going into the service.
~ pieces of artillery, issued to First Penn
syvania Artillery. Col. Charles I. Campbell,
commanding on going into the service.
52s sabres, 1896 pistols and 528 sctts Of ac-
cuiitrements, issued to organized cavalry COM
panies.
Showing an aggregate Of lo7 pieces Of artil-
lery.
39,0i5 muskots and rifles, l,740 pistols, l.
S26 sabres.
22,203 setts infantry accoutrements 528
setts cavalry accoutrements, l,603,929 rounds
of ammunition.
In addition to the above, the following milf
taly property Of the city of Philadelphia is re-
ported by the ''IIome Guard of the city Of
Philadelphia" to be in its possession, viz;
Z 90 pounder p arrot riaed guns, 2 l0-poun-
der Prussian rincd guns, 10-pounder Engli.h
riaod Gun, y cassions for 2o-pounlcr Parrot
riaed guns
2 caissons for 10-pounder Prussi.n lifed guns
with tools and stores.
l 12-pounder riaed howitzer Dahgreen.
l 12-pounder rifcd howitzer, 750lbs. Dahl
green.
2 fell carriages for ditto.
small howltzer guns, l2-pounders, with
carriages, tools and stores.
/ 12-pounder rided howitzer, Dahlgreen.
2 field carriages for ditto.
| I2-pounder smooth Dor e, $50 lbs. Dahl
green.
, field carriages for ditto
2 small l2-pounders howitzers, with carriages,
tools and stores.
1o5 saddles. 127 saddes,wiih traces, breast,
strap, SC 60 saddles, incomplete,
2,296 muskets and rifles 200 pistols and
124 holsters. 1897 rounds Of shot and shell.
G72, S84 rounds muskct and rifle cartridges.
The foregoing does not include the arms and
equipments that have be9n issued to the several
regiments of the Home Guard, and which are
in their possession.
For the details of military operations and OF
statistics, refer you to the Reports OF the Adj
jutant General, Quartermaster Generat Com
missarv General, and the Chief OF Iransporta-
tion, which accompany this message.
In regard to the election of officers in the
Reserve Corps and the recruitment OF the reg
iments of that corps and Of our other gallant
regiments of volunteers proposotosend a spe-
cial message in a few days, as [ desire TO treat
these subjects somewhat at large, and to submit
to the Legislature some documents relating TO
them.
Bv the thirteenth section OF the act OF May
18th. 1861. | was authorized TO draw my war
rants on the treasury for sum not exceeding
twenty thousand dollars for compensation TO
such persons as might be required to serve the
country in a military opacity. AT the date OF
nv last annual message, / had drawn from The
treasury eight thousand five hundred dollars,
and had paid ont up to the 1st Of December,
1861, six thousand four hundred dollars when
my account was settled. Since that time
have drawn two thousand dollars from the treas
ury, part of which with the balance in my hands,
has been expended in the payment of members
of my personal staff in service when required
assistance, and in procuring information. and
to persons employed when the state was threat
ened with invasion in September, 1862, and du-
ring the raid in October last
An account of these expenditures will be
found on Tile in the Office of the Auditor Gen
eral.
Under the act Of Goth April, 1853. it is my
intention to take early measures for the sale OF
the powder magazine in the city Of Pbilade-
phia The powder magazine at Harrisburg IS
not udiciously located. A State powder mag
azne ought, in my Judgment, to be erected on n
suitable site in the vicinity Of this place, and /
recommend the attention Of the Legislature to
the subject.
In september last, two batteries of rl6ed can
non were presented to the commonwealth by q
committee of citizans of Philadelphia, through
S. v. Merrick, Esq, which are now in Arsenal
in that city. recommend that provision be
made for procuring carriages, caissons and 9th
er equipments for them. Theliberal donors aye
entitled to the thanks of the Commonwealth for
their patriotic gift
Under the joint resolutions of 28th of Feb
ruary, 1862, measures were promptly taken for
the relief of our sick and wounded men in the
field.
The wounded at Winchester Strasburg, Front
Royal, Williamsburg and Fair Oaks, and those
in the corps of Major General Banks were duly
attended on the field or in the vicinity by Sur
geon General Smith and corps of surgeons
under his direction, and were brought in to this
State. The same system would have been con-
tinued, but in June last, Ircceived % letter from
the Surgeon General of the United States, rep
resenting that it was found inconvcnient to the
service, and must create difficulties in the regu-
lar identification of the Soldiers for pay and
pensions.
In compliance with his views was reluc-
family obliged to discontinue the system, but L
have not ceased to urge on the War Department
the propriety of sending our sick and wounded
men into the State, where they can be nursed
and cared for by their friends, and have to say