PAEAGUAY. 



PENNSYLVANIA. 



691 



the greatest. The killed and wounded of the 

 Brazilians exceeded three hundred, including 

 nineteen officers; the Paraguayans' list was es- 

 timated at thirteen hundred men of the fleet 

 liors de combat, and five hundred killed or 

 wounded in the batteries. All the Brazilian 

 vessels were more or less injured, but were 

 soon repaired and ready again for service. 



The allied land army was concentrated at Con- 

 cordia, between the Uruguay and Parana. Gen. 

 Urquiza visited Gen. Mitre on the 23d of July, 

 and had a conference with him and the Bra- 

 zilian commander. A review of all the allied 

 armies there assembled took place upon the 

 24th. The total amounted to about 20,000 men, 

 of whom 12,180 infantry, 3,000 cavalry, and 

 Y56 artillery, with 32 pieces of rifled cannon, 

 formed the Brazilian army. On August 13th Gen. 

 Flores made a junction with Paunero at the Mi- 

 rinhay, some twenty miles from Restauracion, in- 

 creasing his force to 9,000 infantry and cavalry, 

 and 40 pieces of ruled cannon. On the 1 7th 

 he found the Paraguayans, numbering about 

 3,000 men, who were prevented from joining 

 or receiving reenforcements from the 7,000 of 

 their troops on the other side at Uruguayana, 

 in Eio Grande, by the Brazilian steamer Uru- 

 guay and two armed launches, drawn up in 

 line of battle, with flanks and front protected 

 by ditches, along the further side of the ravine 

 of Ombusito, two miles from Restauracion, and 

 near the overflowed corner formed by the con- 

 fluence of the Yatay and Uruguay. In the bat- 

 tle which ensued, the Paraguayans were totally 

 defeated, suffering a loss of 800 killed and 1,600 

 , prisoners, including their commander, while the 

 allied loss was only 250. 



This success of Flores entirely cut off the 

 Paraguayan army in Uruguayana from all pos- 

 sibility of retreat. An attempt to force a way 

 through the besieging forces failed. The gar- 

 rison held out until October, when they were 

 forced to surrender. The allies captured five 

 cannons, nine flags, and five thousand muskets. 



In October the Paraguayans evacuated the 

 province of Corrientes, and retreated unmolest- 

 ed into Paraguay ; the allied army being at too 

 great a distance to harass their retreating 

 columns, which were also protected by the 

 circumstances of much of the intervening coun- 

 try being under water from the. heavy rains. 

 The last division of the Paraguayan troops left 

 the Argentine territory on the 24th of October. 



The allies, in following the retreating Para- 

 guayans, crossed the Corrientes River, and ad- 

 vanced toward the Parana, intending to con- 

 centrate their forces at Paso de la Patria, on 

 the frontier of Paraguay. The Brazilian fleet 

 was in November, 1865, at the mouth of the 

 Paraguay, and was to carry the allied troops 

 up the Parana to the point selected for fur- 

 ther hostile operations. At Kumaita, their 

 stronghold, the Paraguayans had made exten- 

 sive preparations to stop the further progress 

 of the Brazilian vessels. The garrison of the 

 fortress numbered from eight to ten thousand 



men, the works were of the strongest kind, and 

 most admirably mounted, and the sunken ob- 

 structions were of the most formidable char- 

 acter. Great mortality prevailed among the 

 Brazilian soldiery, about one hundred and fifty 

 dying per day, principally from starvation, in 

 consequence of the mismanagement of the com- 

 missary department. 



In a note of November 20th, the President of 

 Paraguay complained to the President of the 

 Argentine Republic of the bad treatment which 

 Paraguayan prisoners received at the hands of 

 the allies, who, he asserted, had been compelled 

 to enlist in the allied army, and had even been 

 reduced to slavery in Brazil. To this note, 

 Gen. Mitre replied on November 25th, deny- 

 ing the charges made by President Lopez and 

 the Brazilian Minister of War, by a note dated 

 December 22d, annexed to the answer of Gen. 

 Mitre. 



PENNSYLVANIA. The number of troops 

 furnished by this State to the Federal Govern- 

 ment during the war, exclusive of militia and 

 seamen and marines for the navy, was, in 1861, 

 130,594; in 1862, 71,100; in 1863, 43,046; in 



1864, 91,704; in 1865, 25,840 a total of 362,- 

 284. Of these very few remained in the service 

 at the end of the year. Over 43,000 military 

 commissions also were issued from this State 

 during the continuance of hostilities. Arrange- 

 ments were in progress, in accordance with an 

 act of the Assembly, to collect materials for a 

 complete history of the various State regiments. 

 From the report of the Hon. T. H. Burrowes, 

 under whose management was placed the sys- 

 tem adopted by the State for the maintenance 



*and education of soldiers' orphans, it appears 

 that 1,846 applications for admission to the 

 schools had been allowed, and that 1,242 or- 

 phans had been actually admitted. Gov. Cur- 

 tin, in his message of January 31, 1866, speak- 

 ing of these schools, says : " I have heretofore 

 commended this charity to you, and I deem it 

 unnecessary to add another word in asking a 

 continuance of an appropriation which is to 



Erovide for and educate the best blood of the 

 tate." 



Notwithstanding the large expenditures for 

 military purposes since the outbreak of the war, 

 the State debt was, on the 1st of December, 



1865, less by $402,939 than on the first of Jan- 

 uary, 1861, and the condition of the Treasury 

 was $2,555,579 better than at that time. 



The balance In the Treasury November 80, 1864, 



was $1,942,208 03 



Receipts during fiscal year ending November 



8ft 1S65.....! 6,219,989 6T 



Total in Treasury for fiscal year ending No- 

 vember 80, 186o $8,162,193 3ft 



The payments for the same period were 5,7SS,525 16 



Balance in Treasury November 80, 1SG3. . . . $2,o73,663 14 



The operations of the sinking fund during 

 the year ending on the first Monday of Sep- 

 tember, which reduced the State debt by $745,- 

 811, were as follows : 



