to regard those in the field before the call. Your quota of 300,000 militia is 26,148. Regulations for drafting will be sent to-day.

By order of the Secretary of War:

C. P. BUCKINGHAM,

Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL., August 9, 1862-12.45 p. m.

(Received 9.30 p. m.)

President LINCOLN:

Troops are coming in most rapidly. General Cook is here; too unwell for the field at present, but can render efficient service in organizing. Can he be assigned to duty here temporarily?

RICHARD YATES,

Governor.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., August 9, 1862.

His Excellency O. P. MORTON,

Governor of Indiana, Indianapolis:

Your quota of 300,000 militia is 21,250. Regulations for draft will be forwarded to-day.

By order of the Secretary of War:

C. P. BUCKINGHAM,

Brigadier-General and Assistant Adjutant-General.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., August 9, 1862.

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

I can raise in twenty days Indiana's quota on the last call for 300,000 by volunteering for three years or during the war. Will the bounty be paid and advance pay?

O. P. MORTON.

INDIANAPOLIS, August 9, 1862-12.45 p. m.

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

Indiana has in the service, to forces heretofore reported, two regiments three-months" volunteers, 1,873; Seventy-sixth Regiment, thirty-day volunteers, 771, and five companies seventy- day volunteers, 458; aggregate, 3,102, all in service in Kentucky; also seventeen companies Indiana Legion, guarding rebel prisoners in Camp Morton, 1,038 men; total, 4,140. Report by mail. Aggregate by former report, 57,300, number about 4,200; total, 61,500; recruits now in camp, 16,500. Grand total for Indiana, 78,000.

L. NOBLE,

Adjutant-General of Indiana.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND., August 9, 1862-6 p. m.

(Received 3 p. m. 10th.)

General C. P. BUCKINGHAM:

Have you got the report of Adjutant-General Noble of this State of the number of troops furnished by Indiana up to April, 1862?

O. P. MORTON,

Governor.