HARRISBURG, PA., August 12, 1862.

A. LINCOLN,

President of the United States:

Three regiments will be organized this a. m., and leave as soon as transportation is ready. We have 13,000 men here, and will organize as rapidly as equipments and transportation can be provided. The regiments at Lancaster can go, and expect to hear from Philadelphia that some are ready there.

A. G. CURTIN,

Governor.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, D. C., August 12, 1862.

His Excellency ANDREW G. CURTIN,

Governor of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg:

How soon will the troops begin to move from Harrisburg for Washington, and how many are or will be ready to-day?

P. H. WATSON,

Assistant Secretary of War.

HARRISBURG, August 12, 1862.

P. H. WATSON, Esq.,

Assistant Secretary of War:

Three regiments will be organized this morning and ready for transportation. Thirteen thousand men in Camp Curtin, and will organize at once and go as fast as transportation and equipments can be had. Send arms, as our people do not like to go through Baltimore without. Lancaster regiments ready, and hope some in Philadelphia.

A. G. CURTIN,

Governor.

HARRISBURG, PA., August 12, 1862.

Major General H. W. HALLECK:

Governor Curtin has 33,000 stand of arms, but will not give them to the volunteers now here. Those ordered from Springfield have not arrived. Governor Curtin will start for Washington to-night. Fifty-one companies mustered in here and thirteen at Lancaster.

W. SCOTT KETCHUM,

Brigadier-General.

HARRISBURG, PA., August 12, 1862.

Major-General HALLECK,

General-in-Chief:

Ordnance stores arriving. Last night there were thirty-three entire and twelve incomplete companies mustered into service. Muster and pay rolls required by the paymaster here.

W. SCOTT KETCHUM,

Brigadier-General.