WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., August 23, 1862.

His Excellency E. D. MORGAN,

Governor of New York, Albany, N. Y.:

The War Department has issued all the Springfield rifles it had ratably amount the States, and therefore cannot issued 10,000 more to the New York, troops; but if the State of New York will, as other States have done, arm her own troops with Enfield rifles, the Government will immediately reimburse the State cost and charges therefor. Infantry accouterments suitable for Enfield arms will be procured [and sent] without delay to New York.

P. H. WATSON,

Assistant Secretary of War.

ALBANY, N. Y., August 23, 1862.

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

The One hundred and seventeenth Regiment, Colonel Pease, passed this city last evening en route for Washington. The One hundred and twenty-ninth Regiment left Lockport for Washington via Elmira at 2 p. m. to-day.

THOS. HILLHOUSE,

Adjutant-General.

ALBANY, N. Y., August 23, 1862-8 p. m.

(Received 9.15 p. m.)

P. H. WATSON,

Assistant Secretary of War:

Ten thousand all we have upon the conditions stated in dispatch of yesterday.

E. D. MORGAN.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., August 23, 1862.

Governor TOD,

Columbus, Ohio:

The Department has been informed to-day that a battery has been raised in Cleveland under your authority by Captain Shields, and that you have recently directed it to be disbanded. Although no authority was given by the Department for raising artillery, yet to prevent disappointment you State. Have you received that telegram, and do you design to disband the Cleveland battery?

Secretary of War.

CLEVELAND, OHIO, August 23, 1862.

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War:

I had given orders but for three batteries, Cleveland, Portsmouth, and Dayton. The authority you gave me by telegraph yesterday provides for these cases and saves Captain Shields.

DAVID TOD,

Governor.