at West Point They are all superior military men 
and are all young. None of them are more than 
thirty-eight years old, and the youngest, Parke, is 
but thirty-four, 4 The history of heroes is the his¬ 
tory of youth.” 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS MADE AT ROCHESTER, STATE OF NEW YORK 
UNIVERSITY OE ROCHESTER - ANNUAL ABSTRACT-C. T, KREYER, OBSERVER, FOR SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE. 
Latitude 4,'i c , 8 ', IT." Longitude 77 c . 51'. Height above the Sea. live hundred and sixteen feet. 
Southern Points of Interest. 
Tybee Island. — Tybee is a nice little 4 isle of 
ocean,” long, narrow, and somewhat marshy, in the 
coast county of Chatham, Georgia, and in climate 
and scenery is very much like Port Royal and the 
other Carolina sea islands. A small amount of Sea 
Island cotton is raised upon it, and its inhabitants 
are but few. It has a beautiful creek to the west of 
it, where a ship of any burden may lie in safety at 
anchor. If any of the vessels of war now cruising 
on the Carolina coast, or any of the others now in 
this vicinity getting ready for a Southern trip, 
should suddenly make their appearance in that 
deep creek, For? Pulaski had better look out for Us 
rear as well as its front, and the rebels of Savannah 
had better be getting ready their sackelothand ashes. 
Savannah. —Savannah is fourteen miles above 
Tybee Island, on the Savannah River. It has a 
good harbor. Vessels requiring I t feet of water 
come up to the wharves of tho city, and larger ves¬ 
sels come up to the Five Fathom Hole, four miles 
below. The city is defended by Fort Wayne on 
the east side, by Fort Jackson at. Five Fathom Hole, 
and by Fort Pulaski on Cockspur Island. They 
erected a small tort on 
Annual Rksults. 
Thermometer.Monthly Mean.. 
Highest Degree 
Lowest Degree 
Range 
Warmest day 
4th Augua 1 
6 th Angus! 
Coldest day 
7th February 3 d February 
Barometer_Monthly Meau 
Lord of the Universe! shield us and guide us, 
Trusting Thee always, through sliadow and sun, 
Thou hast united us; who shall divide us? 
Keep us. O. keep us. the many in one! 
Up with our banner bright, 
Sprinkled with starry light, 
Spread its fair emblems from mountain to shore. 
While through the sounding sky 
Loud rings the Nation’s cry — 
Union iffid Liberty! one evermore!" 
Highest Observation 
Lowest Observation 
Range 
Winds 
.North. 
North-East- 
East. 
South-East. 
South . 
South-West. 
West. 
North-West_ 
Total of each Month 
Prevailing Winds... 
ROCHESTER, X. Y„ JANUARY 18, 1862. 
Weather.Fair days... 
Cloudy days. 
Total of each Month 
Rain.. 
Rain apd Snow. 
Snow. 
Amount of water in inches... 
Amount of snow in inches ... 
have also, since secession, 
Skidaway Island, covering the creek to the west, by 
which gunboats could get up towards the rear of 
Savannah. The guns on the parapets are mostly 
Held pieces, mounted on frameworks of wood, 
instead of regular carriages. Besides these, strong 
earthworks have lately been thrown up on the 
mainland along the river, and on tho islands 
in the river, to resist a naval attack, as well 
as earthworks on the west and south, to resist 
a land attack. Every spot of vantage ground 
has been seized upon and prepared for defence. 
The city, like every other secession city, considers 
itself impregnate. The cotton shipped from Savan¬ 
nah amounts to about 400,000 bales of upland 
annually. 
Fort Pulaski. — Fort Pulaski is situated on the 
northeastern corner of Cockspur Island, which is 
separated from Tybee Island by the creek or arm of 
♦be sea already mentioned. It defends the mouth 
of the Savannah River and the approaches to the 
city. The fort, like so many others, being left to 
take care of itself, the Georgians, at secession times, 
quietly stepped in and took possession. They 
immediately commenced work, completing the 
defences, mounting additional guns, etc., till at the 
time of Mr. Russell's visit in May last, lie thought 
it capable of stopping a fleet very effectually. lie 
describes the fort as an •‘irregular pentagon, with 
the base line or curtain face inland, and the other 
faces casemated and bearing upon tho approaches. 
The curtain, Which is simply crenellated, is covered 
by a redan, surrounded by a deep ditch, inside the 
parapet of which are granite platforms ready for 
the reception of guns. The parapet is thick, and 
the counterscarp is faced with solid masonry. A 
drawbridge affords access to the interior of the 
redan, whence the gate of the fort is approached 
across a deep and broad moat., which is crossed by 
another drawbridge.” Sand-bag traverses guard the 
magazine doors, and everything is in as good trim 
as the rebels know how. The w alls are exceedingly 
solid, and well built of hard gray brick, strong as 
iron, upwards of six foot in thickness, the casemates 
and bomb proofs being lofty and capacious. The 
garrison of the fort is 650 men, and it is undoubtedly 
now fully garrisoned. Tho work is intended for 
128 guns, of which probably half are mounted on 
the casemates. They are long thirty-twos, with a 
few forty-twos and columbiads. The 10-inch coturn- 
bhids are en barbette. There are three furnaces for 
heating red-hot shot. Tho channel into the Savan¬ 
nah River at this point is very narrow, and passes 
close to the guns of the fort. Mr. Russell thought 
it would take some hard blows before Georgia 
would be driven to let go her grip of Fort Pulaski. 
Occupation of Biloxi.— Advices from the Gulf 
coast inform us that our forces have occupied Biloxi, 
Mississippi. The place is situated oil Biloxi Bay, 
and commands the railway communication between 
New Orleans and Mobile. By its occupation, our 
troops will be able to menace at once Mobile, New 
Orleans, and Jackson. It has a population of some 
350 inhabitants. 
Where is Cumberland Gap? —Cumberland Gap 
is situated about ten miles from'Cumberland Ford, 
in Tennessee, and has been celebrated for a century 
as a great depression in the mountain ridge which 
traverses the continent from New Hampshire to 
North Alabama. Through this gap. very similar 
in appearance and characteristic to the South Pass 
in the Rocky Mountains, tbrmerly the emigrants 
from Virginia and North Carolina passed on their 
way to the virgin wilds of tho West. For half a 
century thousands upon thousands poured through 
this natural gateway, into the Mississippi Valley, 
from the Atlantic slopes. Boone, Kenton, and their 
pioneer confreres, tirst entered the land of 4 cane 
and turkey ” over the pre-Adamite turnpike. It 
really forms, to this hour, the best, and, in fact, the 
only practicable road for the transportation of troops 
aud heavy munitions of war from East Tennessee 
into Kentucky. 
The Norlliern State* and the War. 
As the period for convening (ho Legislatures of 
the various States has arrived, and the Annual Mes¬ 
sages of their respective Governors are being deliv¬ 
ered to these Legislative bodies, we extract from 
each what has been the action of the different States 
relative to the existing rebellion. By so doing our 
readers may form some idea of the spirit which 
actuates the men w ho are fighting for the integrity 
and preservation of the Union. 
NEW YORK. 
After a review of the events which culminated in 
the attack on Fort Sumter, Gov. Morgan remarks: 
The President immediately appointed a special 
session of Congress to meet July 4th. lie also 
issued his proclamation, calling for seventy-five 
thousand three months militia, 01 this force Ihe 
quota of New York was thirteen thousand men. 
On the morning of the fifteenth, I communicated this 
fact to the Assembly, and recommended that a mili¬ 
tary force, enfticienily large to meet the present and 
prospective demands of tho Government, he author¬ 
ized. and that, greater discretionary power be. con¬ 
ferred to embody and equip a volunteer militia for 
the public defence, and to provide the necessary 
means therefor. A bill for this object, in a few 
hours, passed through all the forms of law, with but 
six dissenting voices. In the Senate, its passage 
was equally prompt and decisive. It empowered 
the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of 
State. Comptroller, State Engineer and Surveyor 
and Slate Treasurer, to accept into the service of'the 
State. In addition tu and as a part of its militia, for 
two years, thirty thousand volunteers. The officers 
named in Iheaetimmediatelymet and resolved toraise 
seventeen regiments of seven hundred and eighty 
men each. A proclamation was issued by me. call¬ 
ing for Ibis force to serve as infantry nr riflemen, and 
to rendezvous at New York, Albany, and Elmira. 
The spirit aroused by the insult to the flag in 
Charleston harbor, sent a company from every 
neighborhood, and at the end of a fortnight, and just 
when tho spirit of volunteering was rising, the first 
quota was tilled. Through the efforts of a member 
of the Board, who visited Washington for that pur¬ 
pose, the Government consented lo accept the 
twenty-one regiments still remaining of the force 
authorized hy the act referred to. 
On the twenty-fourth of April an agent of the 
State was dispatched to Europe with a letter of 
credit furtive hundred thousand dollars, and author¬ 
ity to purchase twenty-live thousand stand of arms. 
On this he obtained and shipped nineteen thousand 
Enfield muskets, which were delivered in Now 
York at a cost of about three hundred and thirty-live 
thousand dollars. 
By the twenty-fifth of May, the thirty thousand 
volunteers, authorized by the act, luid been raised, 
accepted by the Board into the service of the State, 
and organized into thirty-eight, regiments. On the 
eleventh of June, the respective regimental (ield 
officers had been elected, and their services accepted, 
and ou tho twelfth of July, the Iasi of the thirty- 
eight regiments had left the State. Thus iri a period 
of eightv-seven days a volunteer force of thirty 
thousand men hud lieen drawn from various parts of 
the State, organized, lilted for service, and dis¬ 
patched to the seat of war. * * * By the mid¬ 
dle of July there were in the service of the Govern¬ 
ment from this State, of three months militia, about 
eight thousand three hundred men; of three years 
militia, about three thousand four hundred: of two 
years volunteer*, thirty thousand; and of three, 
years volunteers, accepted directly by the War De¬ 
partment, and through the committee of citizens of 
New York, about live thousand, making an aggre¬ 
gate force of forty-six thousand. 
Immediately after the engagement at Bull Run, 
Remarks:_ The observations are made at. 7 A. M., 2 P. M., and 9 P. M., and tho table contains a great amount of meteorological results, obvious 
on o j. - a 47 16 c aar | p or thirty years ending with 1861 is 47.05°, as taken for the Regents of tho University of New York. The mean 
temperature from mv own observations for twenty-five years is 46.94°, and the mean for 1861 is 46.97". From the two sets of observations, the moan tem¬ 
perature of Rochester may be taken as 47 degrees. In only six Decembers in twenty-five years, viz., those of 1850, 1851, 1854, 1856, 1859 and 1860, has 
the temperature here been so low as zero; in December, 1861, the lowest was I 0 C above. _ , • ... 
The water, rain and melted snow, for 1861 is 34.80 inches; but the mean tor twenty-five years is 32.09 inches. The average height of the barometer 
for twenty-live years, is 29.5 inches nearly. Another year of high general health; agricultural products very abundant— C. Dewey. 
General Burnside and his Officers. 
The expedition which has been fitting out at 
Annapolis for some time, and which is now (Janu¬ 
ary 7 th,) awaiting orders to move, has attracted a 
great deal of attention both from ourselves and the 
rebels. On the part of the latter, intense anxiety is 
manifested. The rebel, John A. Magnifier, in antici¬ 
pation of an attack, sent all, his sick from York- 
town to Richmond. He had also sent, for re-enforce¬ 
ments, alleging that Wool was rapidly outflanking 
him, and if Burnside should operate on the James 
River, it would cut off his command. It is believed 
in well informed circles at Washington that its suc¬ 
cessful landing will be the signal for a general 
advance. But a short lime ago General McClellan 
inquired of General Porter in what time he could 
move. Being answered. 4 in twenty-four hours,” he 
rejoined that he “ wished the soldiers not to be 
deluded into the belief that they were about going 
into winter quarters, but to hold themselves In 
readiness, as they would shortly move forward.” 
Since that time it has transpired that orders have 
been given to move by the way of Occoquan. 
Should it ascend the Rappahannock River, a move¬ 
ment forward by Occoquan will compel the evacua¬ 
tion of the rebel batteries on Ihe Potomac, and also 
give us possession of the terminus of the Richmond 
railway at Aeqtria Creek, and leave the Confeder¬ 
ates at Mantissas the choice of two evils, to fall 
back on Richmond, or be completely outflanked and 
captured by McClellan’s masterly strategy. Under 
these circumstances a sketch of the commander and 
some of his officers will prove interesting; hence 
we. condense horn the N. Y. Kvemurj Post the fol¬ 
lowing: 
Brioaiher-Genkral Ambrose Everett Burn¬ 
side, who commands the expedition, was born at. 
Liberty, Union Co., Indiana, 23d May, 1824. At the 
age of eighteen years he entered West Point, and 
graduated fifteenth in a class of forty-seven mem¬ 
bers, in 1847. He was brevetted Second Lieutenant 
in the Second Artillery, and was transferred the 
next year to the Third Artillery. Joining hit? regi¬ 
ment in Mexico, lie marched in Patterson's column 
to the city of Mexico, where he remained till peace 
was declared. Returning to the North, he was sta¬ 
tioned at Fort Adams in Newport Harbor. In 1849 
he was attached as a First Lieutenant to Captain 
(now rebel General) Bragg's battery, and was 
engaged for three or four years in frontier service 
in New Mexico. In an engagement with the 
Apache Indians in August, 1849, near Los Vegas, 
Lieutenant. Burnside commanded a company of 
twenty-nine men, who killed eighteen Indians, took 
nine prisoners, and captured forty horses. For this 
action he was recommended to tho Secretary of War 
and to President Fillmore for promotion, lie after¬ 
wards served as Quartermaster to the Commission 
which purveyed the boundary line between the 
United States and Mexico. In 1851 he crossed the 
Plains from the Gila River through the Indian Ter¬ 
ritory, traveling twelve hundred miles in seventeen 
days, with au escort of but three men. bringing dis- 
- patches from Colonel Graham lo the President. 
Lieutenant Burnside was next stationed at Fort 
Adams, and while there lie resigned his commission 
for the purpose of devotiug his attention to the 
manufacture of a breach-loading rifle of his own 
invention, and took up his residence at Bristol, It. L 
His new enterprise proving unfortunate, he went 
to Chicago and entered the office of the Illinois 
Central Railroad Company as Cashier of the Laud 
Department, while George B. (now General) Mc¬ 
Clellan was General Superintendent and afterwards 
Vice President of the company. After holding the 
position of Cashier two years, Burnside was elected 
Treasurer of the company, and removed to New 
York. While acting in this capacity, soon after the 
outbreak of the rebellion, he received a telegraphic 
dispatch from Governor Sprague, notifying him that 
the First Rhode Island regiment of 1,000 men was 
raised, and asking him to take the command. In 
half an hour he left his office and was on his way to 
Providence. The regiment was one id the first and 
one of the host which went to Washington, and was 
among the most prominent of those which took part 
in the engagement at Stone Bridge, Colonel Burn¬ 
side acting as Brigadier-General during that battle. 
His conduct on that occasion commended him to 
the attention of the authorities at Washington, and 
on the sixth of August he was appointed Brigadier- 
General of volunteers. General McClellan, who 
knows his worth anil military capacity, has selected 
him to command one of the most important expedi¬ 
tions projected since the commencement of the war. 
Bkhsadiek-General John G. Foster, com¬ 
manding the First Brigade, is a native of New Hamp¬ 
shire, and graduated at West Point, fourth in his 
class, in 1846, and was brevetted Second Lieutenant 
in the Corps of Engineers. He was brevetted First 
Lieutenant August 20, 1847, for gallant and merito¬ 
rious conduct in the battles of Contreras and 
Cherubusco. At the storming of El Molino del 
Rey he was wounded, and was brevetted Captain 
September 8 , 1847. In 1854 he was promoted full 
First Lieutenant of Engineers, and was appointed 
Assistant. Professor of Engineering at West Point. 
In July, I860, he was promoted Captain, and was 
Captain of Engineers under Major Anderson at 
Fort Sumter. He returned with the garrison to 
New York, and for some months was actively 
engaged in superintending the erection of the new 
fort at Sandy Hook. lie lias recently been 
appointed Brigadier-General of Volunteers, and 
was in command of the coast division at Annapolis 
until the arrival of'General Burnside. 
Bkiuadikr-Gkneral Jeskie I.. Reno, command¬ 
ing the Second Brigade, is a Pennsylvanian by birth, 
and is now thirty-six years of age. lie entered 
West Point in 1842, and graduated seventh in his 
class in 1846. He was brevetted Second Lieutenant 
of ordnance, and went to Mexico, participating in 
every engagement from Vera Cruz to tho city of 
Mexico. For his gallantry at Cerro Gordo he was 
brevetted First Lieutenant 18th April, 1847. At 
Chepultepee he was wounded, and was brevetted 
Captain 13th September, 1.847. In both these 
engagements he commanded a battery. After the 
peace with Mexico, for six months he was Assistant 
Professor of Mathematics at West Point, and for the 
next year and a half was Secretary to the Artillery 
Board, during which time lie was engaged in testing 
heavy ordnance and compiling tactics for heavy 
artillery. For a time he was on tho Coast Survey, 
and was afterwards employed in topographical 
duty at the West, and was a year engaged in build¬ 
ing the military road from the Big Sioux River to 
St. Paul, Minnesota Territory. From 1854 to 1857 
lie was stationed at tho Frankfort Arsenal. He 
then went to Utah as chief ordnance officer of the 
expedition under General Johnson, and stayed 
there till 1859, when he returned and was stationed 
at Mount Vernon Arsenal in Alabama. *tSince then 
ho has been on duty at Leavenworth, Kansas Terri¬ 
tory, and was appointed Brigadier-General of Vol¬ 
unteers 12lh November, 1861. 
Biuc.uhbr-Gkxkiul J. G. Parke, commanding 
the Third Brigade, is also a Pennsylvanian, and is 
thirty-four years old. He was graduated second in 
his class at West Point in 1849, and was lux-vetted 
Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers. Ho 
has been Secretary of the Lighthouse Board, Secre¬ 
tary of the Board of River and Harbor Improve¬ 
ments, on duty a year on tho stuff of Colonel Mon¬ 
roe in the department of New Mexico, and went 
from there to California on a reconn oissanen with 
Captain Silgreaves’ expedition. He has been three 
.times across the plains on topographical duty, arid 
in 1857 was appointed Chief Astronomer and Sur¬ 
veyor to the Northwest Boundary Survey. This 
duty took him to Vancouver’s Island, where he has 
been employed till August last, returning to Wash¬ 
ington in October. He was appointed Captain in 
the new (regular) Thirteenth Infantry, but was 
subsequently promoted September 9, 1861, Captain 
in his own corps, the Topographical Engineers. On 
the 23d November lie was appointed Brigadier- 
General of volunteers. 
Commander Samuel F. Hazard, United States 
Navy, w as bom at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1804, 
and is a son of Nathaniel Hazard, U. S. Senator 
from Rhode Island in 1820, and is a cousin of Com¬ 
modore Oliver Hazard Perry, lie entered the navy 
as a midshipman in 1823, and has been thirty-eight 
years in the service, thirty-two of which have been 
passed in sea and shore duty, lie was First Lieu¬ 
tenant during the Mexican war, and was detailed 
from the Cumberland by Commodore Perry to com¬ 
mand the captured prize Nonato, with which he 
sailed for Tobasco, and assisted in the bombard¬ 
ment and reduction of that place. His appointment 
as Commander dates from 1855. lie has been ou 
duty at every naval station except the East Indian, 
and was for three years in command of the receiv¬ 
ing ship Ohio, at Boston. His lust command at sea 
was ou hoard the United States steamer Pocahon¬ 
tas. and he returned in her from the Gulf last Feb¬ 
ruary. During the past live months Commander 
Hazard has been second in command of the gun¬ 
boat fleet at St, Louis, and from there was ordered 
to the Rip Raps. From the Rip Raps he was ordered 
to Annapolis as the naval adviser and coadjutor of 
General Burnside, and will be second only to the 
Commodore in the naval part of the expedition. 
It will be observed that two of the Generals, Fos¬ 
ter and Reno, were class-mates of General McClellan 
scattered over nine States, in forty-three different 
brigades, and under twelve Generals ot Division. 
I will not attempt to heighten the importance of 
the foregoing exhibit by comments. The figure's are 
more emphatic than words. The New York troops 
have taken part, in every engagement during the 
war east uf the Alleghanfes aud south of Washing¬ 
ton. They have enriched tjie soil of six States with 
their loyal blood. Their bearing has at all times 
been that of freemen contending for.fireside rights. 
They have never forgotten the dignity uiid human 
ily of the citizen and neighbor In the uniform of the 
soldier. Courage, coolness, and the endurance of 
veterans, have characterized them in the hour of 
danger. Of the first to obey the forward call, one 
of her young commanders was among the earliest 
to Inscribe his name on the bright page of hero-mar¬ 
tyrs. Others. Of beloved memory, have fallen; some 
in battle, others by disease; and’from yet others not 
a breeze from the'South but bears upon it. the manly 
sighs of those who, because they loved and would 
(intend their country’s rights, fill the felon’s cell. 
When the enduring record shall he made up, in all 
that constitutes the brave soldier, the war for the 
Union will suffer nothing when compared with the 
grand struggle which gave tu a national existence. 
MASSACHUSETTS. 
Governor Andrew’s Message to the Legislature 
was delivered on the 3d inst. The document is of 
unusual length, including all matters of local in¬ 
terest and a general history of facts and figures, 
showing the part Massachusetts has thus far taken 
against the Southern rebellion: 
4 The ordinary expenditures of the year foot up 
about $1,180,001); the ordinary revenue about $ 1 ,- 
127,000; the war expenses loot up nearly $3,385,000. 
To offset this Ihe State has been reimbursed by the 
government $775,000, and by other sums, making 
the aggregate refunded nearly $ 1 , 000 , 000 . 
. I fi.niiij Critil I IV til tin* til ill) l w. Ill 
The troops sent into the field both for three 
months and three years, with the exception of one 
battery, have been fully armed and equipped by the 
State.' The Governor recommends that the State 
assume the collection of direct national tax of $824,- 
681, being its proportion of the $ 20 , 000 , 001 ) author¬ 
ized by Congress. 
The State has contributed five regiments of in¬ 
fantry, one buttery of artillery, and one batnllioii of 
rifles of her militia to the three months service. To 
the three years volunteer service she has sent, as 
volunteers’, twenty-four regiments of infantry, one 
of cavalry, five batteries of artillery, two companies 
of sharp-shooters, and one infantry battalion of five 
companies. Six companies more became attached 
to two regiment* of New York. The Governor 
urges the repeal of the constitutional discrimination 
be twee a citizens and aliens, and those of foreign 
birth. 
The recommendation of the General Government 
in reference to coast defence is fully indorsed. A 
Communication from Gen. Totten upon this subject 
will Im laid before the Legislature. Military educa¬ 
tion in our common schools is recommended. The 
whole number of enrolled militia is 157,496. The 
whole number who have gone into the volunteer 
service of the United States is reported by the Adju¬ 
tant General as 27,275. About 11,000 men are esti¬ 
mated to be in the naval service as sailors and 
marines, leaving 119,000 at home, besides those men 
capable of the ordinary duties of civil life not in¬ 
cluded within the prescribed age for military en¬ 
rollment.” 
The Governor closes his message as follows: 
4 The great Rebellion must be put down and Us 
promoters crushed ben call i the ruins of their own 
ambition. The greatest crime of history must re¬ 
ceive a doom so swift and sure that the enemies of 
popular government shall stand in awe while they 
contemplate the elastic energy and concentrative 
powers of the Democratic institutions of a free 
people.” 
MICHIGAN. 
An extra session of the Michigan Legislature con¬ 
vened at Lansing on tho 2 d inst. The Governor’s 
Message suggests the liquidation of direct Federal 
tax by releasing the United States Government 
from reimbursing the State on account of war 
expenses to an equal amount. 
Michigan 1 ms furnished 2*1,000 men for the war, of 
which ten regiment* are tor three years; one battery 
artillery, aim one regiment for three months. Vol¬ 
unteers have been raised at the expense of the 
State, costing $539,000. of which $92,000 have been 
refunded by the United States Government, 
In view of the manifest disposition of the foreign 
powers intermeddling with our domestic affaire, he 
recommends that provision be made fur the organi¬ 
zation and uniforming al the militia to constitute an 
active force, and their speedy enrollment, to bo sub¬ 
ject to draft at any lime; and not favoring tho 
speedy erection of fortifications, he advises the 
Legislature to urge upon Congress the immediate 
necessity ot establishing at some convenient point 
at the Northwest, an arsenal and manufactory of 
arms aud munitions of war, and also a naval station, 
to be located in Michigan, us being the most advan¬ 
tageous, both from the extent, of her coast and her 
unrivalled resources for ship building. 
In alluding to the National affairs, he attributes 
our complications abroad and troubles ar home to 
the inactivity of the army, and says the people will 
not tamely submit to see'our armies used to protect 
the slave property of tho rebels, when tho most 
active menus should be taken to suppress the rebel¬ 
lion, sparing uothiiig uml apologizing to nobody for 
our actions, % 
The pressure upon our columns precludes publi¬ 
cation of auy further extracts from these State 
documents in present number, but we will resume 
the matter iu next issue. 
I mmiuiUUlTlj U.III-J NIU «IVUUt 
the President' communicated to me Ids desire that 
New York should furnish an additional force of 
twenty-five thousand three-year volunteers. ** * "■ 
Proper authority was duly granted by the War De¬ 
partment for this purpose, arid directions were given 
to tln> agents ot the Government at Washington, and 
on service in this Slate, to aid me in this work. I, 
therefore, on the twenty-fifth of July, issued my 
proclamation, calling lot* a volunteer force of twenty- 
five thousand men. to serve for three years or during 
the war. + * + On October first the Govern¬ 
ment authorized an increase of the force from this 
State to one hundred thousand men. Again, on the 
sixth of November, this number was enlarged toone 
hundred and twenty-five thousand. 
The annual report, of the Adjutant-General will 
show that New York has sent, into the field, of 
infantry and riflemen, ninety-nine regiments, of 
which number eleven were three months militia; of 
cavalry, ten regiment* and one battalion: of artil¬ 
lery. two regiments, two battalions, and nine batter¬ 
ies: a rocket battalion, and a regiment of engineer 
officers and soldiers; or an organized force equiva¬ 
lent. looue hundred and fifteen regiments, in addi¬ 
tion to tills, there are now in the State, of volunteers 
mustered into the service of tho United States, about 
fourteen thousand live hundred, or sufficient for 
fifteen regiments more, increasing New Yorit’scon¬ 
tribution to one hundred and thirty regiments. 
Muster-in rolls and statistics as to numbers are as 
yet incomplete; but the accurate returns are not 
likely to materially vary the following figures re¬ 
lating to the above organizations, namely: 
There have left tho State, in the several regiments, of 
officers mid men, ...... 05.078 
Recruits since added,__ . . 11,000 
Total that have entered service beyond limits of Shite, 100,078 
Now in the State mustered into U. S. ser\ ice.. 14,500 
Aggregate number of men rained in the State,_ 120,578 
Of those who entered the field, there have been killed 
in battle,. ... 270 
Have died from natural causes,..... 350 
Made prisoners of war,....... 550 
Honorably discharged __ 2,700 
Discharged by error iu U. S. muster,.. 1.500 
Discharged hy ennrt martial.. __ 140 
Absent, without leave, and desertions._ 3.300 
Unaccounted for,. _ _____ 900 
Discharged l»v expiration of time of service, (three 
months militia,). 7 334 
Now in Uie field..... 89,034 
.11 there be added to the latter the volunteers now 
in t'.e Stale, an available force of one hundred and 
throe thousand three hundred uml seven is shown. 
It is estimated that, in addition to the foregoing 
Folk and Pillow have been in the regular 
receipt of 4 bottled news," floated down the river to 
them from Cairo. But what they gel at this end of 
the route we get at the other. It is stated that the 
officers of the blockading fleet at New Orleans 
receive late news by “ bottle express,” floated down 
the Mississippi river, which some of their Union 
friends in New Orleans and up the Mississippi send 
down to them sealed. 
Long linos of advertisements appear in the 
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sale, some of which are recommended as beyond 
the line of defence. Significant 
The steanwhip Constitution at Boston is loading 
with stores and munitions of war, preparatory to 
sailing on her second trip to Ship Island. She will 
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that many Western Virginians would come back 
and behave themselves if they dared. # 
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