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PENNSYLVANIA. 



Domestic creditors' certificates. f64 52 



Military loan, per act of April 

 12, 1861 redeemed 100,000 00 



520,302 26 



Public debt December 1, 1862- $40,448,213 82 



Towards the extinguishment of the public 

 debt, the Sinking Fund holds securities amount- 

 ing to $10,781,000, as follows : 



Bonds of Sunbury and Erie Railroad Co. ... $3,500,000 00 



Bonds of Pennsylvania Railroad Co 7,000,000 00 



Bonds of Wyoming Canal Co 281,000 00 



$10,781,000 00 



Should there be no extraordinary demand 

 on the treasury, there can be appropriated 

 from the large balance on hand and the in- 

 creasing revenues, at least $1,500,000 during 

 1863, toward the payment of the public debt. 



The quota of the State of the direct tax of 

 the United States was $1,946,719, which was 

 paid on the 14th of June, 1862, partly by a re- 

 linquishment of a portion of the sums claimed 

 by the State from the Federal Government and 

 partly in cash after deducting 15 per cent. 

 for prompt payment. There is still due to the 

 state, for advances to equip volunteers, about 

 $300,000. 



The interest on the debt of the State was 

 paid in August in specie at the cost of $146,- 

 631, for the difference between specie and pa- 

 per currency. This amount was refunded to 

 the State by the banks under the act legal- 

 izing their suspension of specie payments. 



Previous to the first call for volunteers on 

 the 7th of July, the State had sent forward 

 nearly 110,000 men. Liberal bounties were of- 

 fered by municipal authorities throughout the 

 State, and 38 regiments and three unattached 

 companies of infantry were soon raised. On 

 the 4th of August a draft of 300,000 militia 

 was ordered by the President to serve for nine 

 months. The enrolment and draft were con- 

 ducted throughout the State under the laws of 

 Congress, the State militia law being too de- 

 fective for that object. The draft generally 

 took place on the 16th of October. In some 

 counties, a degree of resistance was manifest- 

 ed, but on the whole it was quite successful. 

 Including the three months volunteers, Penn- 

 sylvania has furnished to the Federal Govern- 

 ment more than 200,000 men since the com- 

 mencement of the war, besides some 50,000 

 who were in service, or actually ready for it, as 

 volunteer militia under a call made on Sept. 11, 

 making in .the whole more than 250,000 men. 



Early in September the Confederate army 

 under General Lee crossed the Potomac into 

 Maryland, with the design, as was supposed, 

 of invading Pennsylvania. On the 4th of 

 Sept. the Governor issued a proclamation, call- 

 ing upon the people to organize into compa- 

 nies, and to hold themselves in readiness to be 

 ordered into actual service for the defence of 

 the State. On the llth he issued orders for 

 50,000 of the volunteer militia to rendezvous at 

 Harrisburg. The call was promptly responded 

 to, aud a large force was immediately sent for- 



ward to the Cumberland valley. Fifteen 

 thousand of this volunteer militia were pushed 

 forward to Hagerstown and Boonsboro 1 in the 

 State of Maryland ; ten thousand were posted 

 in the vicinity of Greencastle and Chambers- 

 burg, and about twenty-five thousand were at 

 Harrisburg, on their way to Harrisburg, or in 

 readiness and waiting transportation to pro- 

 ceed thither. On the 24th of Sept. the entire 

 force was disbanded, as the Confederate army 

 had withdrawn from Maryland. For further 

 details see ARMY OPERATIONS. 



The following is the letter of Gen. McClellan 

 to the Governor of Pennsylvania, acknowledg- 

 ing the services of the militia of that State : 



" HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, ) 

 SHARPSBCRG, Sept. 27, 1862. ) 

 GOVERNOR : I beg to avail myself of almost the first 

 moment of leisure I have had since the recent battles 

 to tender to you my thanks for your wise and ener- 

 getic action in calling out the militia of Pennsylvania 

 for its defence when threatened by a numerous and 

 victorious army of the enemy. Fortunately circum- 

 stances rendered it impossible for the enemy to set 

 foot upon the soil of Pennsylvania; but the moral 

 support rendered to my army by your action was none 

 the less mighty. In the name of my army, and for 

 myself, I again tender to you our acknowledgment for 

 your patriotic course. The manner in which the peo- 

 ple of Pennsylvania responded to your call, and has- 

 tened to the defence of their frontier, no doubt exer- 

 cised a great influence upon the enemy. I am, very 

 respectfully and sincerelv, yours, 



GEORGE B. McCLELLAN, 

 Major General, United States Army. 



In October a body of Confederate cavalry, 

 with a battery of artillery, suddenly crossed 

 the Potomac and made their way as far as 

 Chambersburg, seizing such supplies as were 

 useful to them, and committing other depreda- 

 tions. They went out of the State by crossing 

 the South Mountain, and thus reaching the 

 Potomac below Harper's Ferry. This march 

 was made with so much celerity that the Con- 

 federates did not encounter any of the troops 

 sent against them. 



By an act of the Legislature, passed on 

 March 29, 1813, it was provided that citizens 

 absent from home in actual military service 

 might exercise their right of suffrage as if they 

 were present at the usual places of election. 

 This act was substantially reenacted in a gen- 

 eral election law passed Jnly 2, 1839. The 

 subject of permitting the volunteers absent to 

 vote was made a question before the Supreme 

 Court of the State, which decided that, by 

 reason of a phrase in the constitutional amend- 

 ments adopted in 1838, such proceeding had 

 become unconstitutional. 



The number of banks in the State is about 

 90, and their circulation, at the close of the 

 year, was $22,500,000; specie, $11,500,000. 

 There are 12 savings banks, and 36 insurance 

 companies, chiefly of New York, doing busi- 

 ness in the State. 



The length of the railroads of the State is 

 3,050 miles, cost $155,472,278. In the cities 

 of the State there are 175 miles of city pas- 



