The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-01-22

tho payment of the amounts, from the Genera
Government, and on failure to secure the same
then TO report to the next Legislature. irecom.l
mendus such action as he may deem just and
proper.
The expenses of the Transportation and Tele
graph Department during the past year have been
as follows:
Pad (out OF appropriation made
. by Military Loan act of 1851 .sl3s5s 81
Unpaid (the appropriation being ex-
hausted) 1864 70
Outstanding liabilities, estimated at 5000 90
$34 423 Sc
These expenses have been mainly Incurred in
Keeping up the necessary correspondence OF the
military departments and in the transportation of
sick and wounded and the dead bodies OF onr vol
unteers as will be seen By the report Of the Chief
OF Transportation, herewith communicated. I
recommend an appropriation to meet the deicien-
ey.and also to carry ON the service of this depart
mept hereafter.
By the thirteenth section Of the act of the 10Th
May. 1861, the sum of S20,0c0 YVES appropriated
to be expended by the Governor for the compen-
saticn OF such persons he might require TO servo
tho Commonwealth in the military organization OF
the State or General Government, aud for the ex-
penses incident to the busiRess in which they might
be Employed.
have, according to law, settled annual accounts
otthe expenditure Of this fund in the Auditor Gen.
erals office, which the Legislature is referred.
The unexpended balance is now Sf,52f 99. a
further sum should be appropriated in like manner.
Out of this fund.- have paid the persons whom
found it necessary to employ in the military de-
partment, an1 the expenses of the agency which
was compelled to establish at Washington to at
tend to tho interest and welfare Of volunteers.
The continuance of this agency aud the estat-
lshment of smaller one in the West are OF vital
Importance to them. recommend the passage OF
an act authorizing the appointment of agents at
tUAcn vr.tn, .E..;1l lt,...
ties, which should include the collection of all
sbonntes, back pay, pensions, etc., due to Penn
sylyanianS. ~ 3' .
!. On this subject refer the Legislature to the
report OF Colonel r. Biddle Roberts, late Agent of
the State, at Washington, herewith communicated
and commend IL to your careful examination.
On the invasion of the State during the last sum-
mer, the President made call tor militia, and with
bis assent subsequently, made call for volunteer
militia for the defense of the State. Under these
calls men were assembled and organized with
promptness, after the reality OF the emergency came
to he understood by our people. The general Gov
ernmrnt clothed, and. snbssted this force, aud
aueed to pey it, but as no appropriations for that
PURPOSE had been made by Congress, the President
and Secretary of War promised If the money should
be advanced from other quarters to recommend its
immediate payment on the meeting of Congress-.
1t is understood tina. steps hav, already been ia
ken to fulfil this pledge. Several of the banks
cheerfu.ly and readily advanced the necessary funds
to the amount Of S67L, ,476 43 on my promise to
recommend to the Legislaturc an appropriation to
repay them in case Congress should fail to make
one I accordingly make that recommendation
most emphatically. Should it bn necessary. will
herealer in special message, give the details and
correspondence relating to this subject,
$ New York and New Jersey, under the Prcsi-
dents call. sent regiments TO assist in our defence,
for which our thanks due to those States, our
good ncghbors.
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volunteers from eighteen States, including Penn
syIvania, were engaged, 1T appeared to me proper
that all those States should unite in establishing
cemetery on the spot, in which their soldiers who
had fallen in that conflict should be honorably in
tered. accordingly appointed David Wills, Esq,
of Gettysburg, my agent, and through him, a situ
was purchased at a cost of 81, ,475 81, and the
conveyances made to the Commonwealth On
communicating with the authorities of the other
States, they all readily agreed to become parties
to the arrangement, and on the 10th day of No
vember last, the cemetery was dedicated with ap-
propiiate ceremonies in the presence of the Pres
ident of the United States, the Governors of the
States concerned, and other high officers, State and
National. On the 10th day of December. on the
invitation Of Mr.. Wills, commissioners represent
ing the States interested in the cemetery met in
Harrisburg and agreed upon plan for its improve
n1ent and care in the future, and the apportion-
ment of the sum OF money required, to the seve-
raj States, which is herewith communicated. The
expenses attending the establishment of this Gem
etery, including the cost Of the site and of remov
ing the bodies of the slam, have thus far amount.
ed to 5000 3S, and an appropriation will be re-
quiz ed TO pay these expenses and to meet our por-
ton of those attending its futul maintenance. 1t
will appear bv the proceedings of the comm ission-
ers that their due proportion of the expenses al
really incurred are to be refunded by the States on
whose ac count they were made. 1t is Just to say
that Mr.. Wills has discharged his delicate and i'm
portant duties with fidelity and to my entire sat.
isfaction.
The act for the relief of families of volunteers
in service may require some revision. 1t is alleg
ed that in some parts of the State the county au-
thorities ale backward in executing the law. If
this be So the members from the different counties
will be aware of the fact, and will be most ready
to make such further enactments as may be proper.
commend to the prompt attention Of the Legs.
la:ure the sui jac of the relief of poor orphans Of
soldiers VINO have given, shall give their lives
to tho country during this crisis. In my opinion,
their maintenance and education should be provided
for by the State. Failing other natural friends of
ability to provide for them, they should ba honora-
bly, received and fostered as children of the Com
The $50, 900 heretofore given by the
Pennsylvania Rairoad Company, referred to in my
last annual message, is still unappropriated, and
that this sum, with such other means
as the Legislature may think t, be applied to this
end, in such manner as may be thought most ex-
pedient and effective. In anticipation of the
pton of a more perfect system, I recommend
that provision be made for securing the admission
of sHch children into existing educational establish
ments, to be there clothed, nlirtured and instructed
at the public expense. make this recommenda-
tion earnestly, feeling assured that In doing so,
represent the wishes of the patriotic, the benevo.
lent and tae good, of the State. - .f4.st4 a.
l invite the attention of the Legislature TO the
condition Of the loyal people of East Tennessee,
which is represented to be most deplorabe, and APP
peals with Irresistible force alike to your sympa-
thes and your sense Of justice. Their whule coun-
try has been laid waste by the contending armies OF
the Government and the rebels. Four times large
armies have passed over that district, destroyngor
carrying off all that had been gathered for the np
preaching winter, and now the women and children
are left In state of desttution.
The representations made by suudry gentlemen
of the highest responsibility, from that State
of the most Heart rending character. Starvation,
actual and present, now exist. Can we, in the
midst of cilluent abundance, for q moment hesi-
tates as to what cur action shall be towards the
mani tvho co1y baau nd