HARRISBURG, September 4, 1862. (Received 10.35 a. m.)

General C. P. BUCKINGHAM:

I desire you to send me authority immediately to enlist an Irish regiment at Pittsburg for General Corcoran. All arrangements are made for that purpose, and I am confident the regiment will be ready in twenty days, if that time is given. A regiment of the same kind having been ordered in Philadelphia, it would seem to be eminently proper that one should be raised in Pittsburg of the same kind.

A. G. CURTIN,

Governor of Pennsylvania.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, D. C., September 4, 1862.

Governor SALOMON,

Madison, Wis.:

In order to justify this Department in sending ammunition to Wisconsin some satisfactory evidence should be furnished of a reasonable necessity. None has yet been received that there is any Indian force in that State.

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, D. C., September 5, 1862.

Honorable WILLIAM H. SEWARD,

Secretary of State:

SIR: The Secretary of War directs me to respectfully acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 4th instant, and to state that in conformity with the request, D]d made Major- General Butler has been instructed to restore to Amedee Couture, of New Orleans, the coin taken from his possession that officer claimed as the property of Messrs. Hope & Co., of Amsterdam.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

P. H. WATSON,

Assistant Secretary of War.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL., September 5, 1862. (Received 2.30 p. m.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

Sixty-one regiments reported. Twenty-three mustered, nine gone, four armed and under orders, ten waiting for arms. I armed two regiments with captured arms, and expect to arm more in the same way. Only 4,600 guns here; invoiced, but not arrived, 28,000.

W. SCOTT KETCHUM,

Brigadier-General.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington City, D. C., September 5, 1862.

His Excellency O. P. MORTON,

Governor of Indiana, Indianapolis:

The Untied States is buying all the good arms in the market, both in this country and in Europe, at fair prices. Some of the holders