in motion I have to request that you issue an order exempting all State and country officers from draft. I further advise that there is great danger of seriously interfering with railroad transportation unless further exemptions are made of those employed in that service, and would recommend that you instant all the commissioners to exempt from draft such employes of railroads as the several presidents thereof may state, upon honor, are indispensably necessary to the working of their roads.

DAVID TOD,

Governor.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., August 25, 1862.

Governor TOD,

Columbus, Ohio:

An order of exemption of State and county officers, os far sa can be properly done, will be issued before the draft. The question as to railroad employes has been fully considered in conference with some of the principal railroad men, and it is thought better not to make an exemption from draft, but to relieve from duty such indispensable employes as may happen to be drafted. On reflection I think you will agree that this is the better course.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

COLUMBUS, OHIO, August 25, 1862-8.40 p. m.

(Received 10.30 p. m.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON,

Secretary of War, Washington, D. C.:

As the military prisoners are about leaving Camp Chase, I advise that you direct me to disband the Eighty-fifth and Eighty-eighth Regiments State Guards, retaining three companies only, to guard political prisoners; and in the same order authorize me to recruit one regiment from them for general service for three years, giving till the 1st of September to do so.

DAVID TOD,

Governor.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, D. C., August 25, 1862.

Adjutant-General HILL,

Columbus, Ohio:

The three-months" regiment cannot be relieved at the present moment,

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

HARRISBURG, PA., August 25, 1862.

(received 11 a. m.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

Only 15,000 stand of arms were sent here. We will require 15,000 more immediately. I did not purchase any arms for the State,