COLUMBUS, OHIO, October 7, 1862-4.10 p. m.

(Received 5.30 p. m.)

Honorable EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War;

Please order your paymasters to pay the usual advance pay and bounty to recruits for three years or during the war who may enlist, if they have been drafted. This I have promised, and a large number of the drafted men are going into the service for three years.

DAVID TOD,

Governor.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington City, October 7, 1862.

His Excellency Governor TOD,

Columbus, Ohio:

I leave to-day for Indianapolis and Rock Island. Take Columbus on my return.

C. P. BUCKINGHAM,

Brigadier-General, &c.

MEMORANDUM.] WASHINGTON, October 8, 1862.

The Secretary of War directs that an order be prepared authorizing volunteer to enlist, or rather be transferred with their own consent to regular regiments. The order should be so framed as to create as little confusion as possible in muster- rolls.

H. W. HALLECK,

General-in-Chief.

WAR DEPARTMENT,

Washington, D. C., October 8, 1862.

The GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS,

Springfield:

How many regiments of infantry and cavalry can you furnish and have ready in two weeks for an expedition against Vicksburg and to clear the Mississippi?

EDWIN M. STANTON,

Secretary of War.

(Same to the Governors of Indiana, Indianapolis; Iowa, Dubuque; Minnesota, Saint Paul; Ohio, Columbus; Wisconsin, Madison.)

SPRINGFIELD, ILL., October, 1862-1 p. m.

Honorable P. H. WATSON,

Assistant Secretary of War:

All mustered regiments armed. Fifteen regiments reported organizing, which should be consolidate.

W. SCOTT KETCHUM,

Brigadier-General.

COLUMBUS, OHIO, October 8, 1862.

(Received 10 p.m.)

Honorable E. M. STANTON:

I will within a few days have seven regiments of three-years" troops ready for the field, besides one at Marietta and one at Portsmouth,