Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1899-01-02

ticipatet. and requesting that reinforce
naeiats should 10 sent 10 General Boyle. A
neunced an Invasion e the STATE. and asked
ASSISTANCE. His appeal was OF the most
trtestc soldiers OF Indiana viii not walt for
eounttsSs> Oar State VIII be oveTrtln II they
ton had gene 10 knlg htsfown 10 spend sun
day when this dispatch was reserved al In
town Was closed ana he could not . e
reached. but his secretaries dispatched or
Eecte-d In different parts 81 the state TO pro-
coed Al once To Indianapolis, and Colonel
Holloway procured engine and started
FOR knightsSown Morton returned innne~
diately 70 indianapolis. and the forwarding
OF troops began
The mastering os.icer. Colonel slmonson.
sas 1911 "a s king ana mssnodieai
War Department fer change. A rev mus
tertng or-icer in the person Of
oaSte3S II the Governor and said Tel me
whefe }es troops are and let me - to work.
neid L the men are Forthcoming He Was
at once taken 70 Camp Morton and AT III
= 1913 eA th7 same nisnI ne noufed Nor
10 Rhtt a {Fs Satf3l MAS ready Tor tue Held
The oEsa uiza3&on Of troops Went on with a
speed never before known. Great numbers
OF torches. and before daylight were OF for
Men keateo ~ The senate chamber was turned
nlto >Snootroofn where oricers were IN
structed by Darlington in the method OF
s snS Nlls oat pay rolls Tbs. regiments now
fosiowed each other with great rapid
lty. The strain upon the railroads
Tor transportation was immense. The
night and day making $40 ss rounds of am
m0nitton every twenty-four hours
UNPRECE RECORD.
The following are some OF Morton's tele-
grams announcing the departures of the
troops.
Aug. III send go men tonight. Zoo
tomorrow and Tuesday
night 4 battery wui 80 to-merroM' The
sixty-ninth has started The seventy NTH
!, m today Tor louisville. eng III -
Aug. 2S-Win have at least seventeen
aduitlonal regiments ready for arms this
Aug. s-The Seventy ninth leaves Tues
4ss men in Kentucky up TO Friday last; this
VIII make II 1885 by Thursday this week.
This includes two batteries
Aug e7-Auother regiment can leave to-
morrow one leaves this evening,
afternoon, The fIshty-nrs, and Eighty
second VII he armed to-day, Two resi-
VIII he ready next week
Aug. 3-The Eighty-eirhth is at tho
depot, The Etghty-seventh viii be in Louis
Xllie tomorrow morning. Two regiments
leave to-day and two more tonight
serious difficulty in forwarding these
for hounties and advance pay. Many OF the
men men, had LEFT their homes suddenly without
remit their bounties before going into tho
FINANCIAL. TRANSACTIONS.
'Morton's action in this emergency
characteristics. lie borrowed the money
himself, He was man of little property.
but his credit at such a time and for such
a purpose unlimited. One morning he
telegraphed To Nj. f. Reeves a merchant in
Cincinnati. asking that sloo.opo should be
sent on that evening to pay the troops The
amount was borrowed within a few hours
upon the personal responsibility of Mr.
Reeves and that evening a messenger was
on the way to Indiana with the money one
- 10 h4 nf IN
dianapolis and asked for S50.eo. What have
ident and. finding a market basket hear
bV he placed the rof1s OF greenbacks In
basket and its unusual contents. The money
to repay these loans was slow in coming
and Morton teiesraphed TO stanton I have
$4,000 TO pay bounties. / have sent four
ba5 n Of the the o levy to and
dear sir: that you viii see that the bounty
mo oy which this may be replaced may
be sent forward promptly, that my credit
may not suffer Stanton replied The
most peremptory orders have been given to
will dismiss the officer whose neglect occa-
sions the delay. no matter what his rank
Morton tone had thus o saie when
the repayment was made the banks would
The Indianapolis Journal of Aug n
voiced the exultation OF the State at the
titled. What Indiana Has Done Four
teen thousand men It said. have been or
four days. We do not believe this prompt
ness has been equaled in any emergency by
any State in the Union The news of tho
INVASION of Kentucky reached Governor
speedy accumulation OF forces on the main
lines of the rebel advance obvious.
Ohio could not be ready for week. Men
must be sent TO arrest the advance the
war would be transferred to our own bor-
der. Governor Morton dete rmined that the
men should be sent. Enough of resi-
ments were fun. but they were scattered all
over the State unorganiZed. undiscipiined
and unarned. They had to he collected,
equipped. armed. differed. paid
and transported. +" Everything had TO
be done that WAS necessary to change men
lust out of their shops and farms into SOL
Hers. 1t task for a giant. but hap
PLY there were gigantic energies at the
head of tho government TO undertake II.
Since Monday morning this really formula
Die army. g large that with which Gen.
.ral Scott marched upon Mexico has been
collected. organized. paid. prepared ana
sent into the field -