ISRAEL WASHBURN, Jr., Governor of Maine; H.S.  BERRY, Governor of New Hampshire; FREDERICK HOLBROOK, Governor of Vermont; WILLIAM A. BUCKINGHAM, Governor of Connecticut; E.D.  MORGAN, Governor of New York; CHARLES S. OLDEN, Governor of New Jersey; A.G.  CURTIN, Governor of Pennsylvania; A.W.  BRADFORD, Governor of Maryland, F.H.  PEIRPOINT, Governor of Virginia; AUSTIN BLAIR, Governor of Michigan; J.B.  TEMPLE, President Military Board of Kentucky; ANDREW JOHNSON, Governor of Tennessee; H.R.  GAMBLE, Governor of Missouri; O.P.  MORTON, Governor of Indiana; DAVID TODD, Governor of Ohio; ALEXANDER RAMSEY, Governor of Minnesota; RICHARD YATES, Governor of Illinois; EDWARD SALOMON, Governor of Wisconsin.

EXECUTIVE MANSION,

Washington, July 1, 1862.

Gentlemen:  Fully concurring in the wisdom of the views expressed to me in so patriotic a manner by you in the communication of the 28th day of June, I have decided to call into the service an additional force of 300,000 men.  I suggest and recommend that the troops should be chiefly of infantry.  The quota of your State would be ------.  I trust that they may be enrolled without delay, so as to bring this unnecessary and injurious civil war to a speedy and satisfactory conclusion.  An order fixing the quotas of the respective States will be issued by the War Department to-morrow.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

EXECUTIVE MANSION,

Washington, July 11, 1862.

Ordered, That Major-General Henry W. Halleck be assigned to command the whole land forces of the United States as General in Chief, and that he repair to this capital as soon as he can with safety to the positions and operations within the department under his charge.

A. LINCOLN.

Whereas, in the judgment of the President, the public safety does require that the railroad line called and known as the Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad in the State of Missouri be repaired, extended, and completed from Rolla to Lebanon, in the direction to Springfield, in the said State, the same being necessary to the successful and economical conduct of the war and to the maintenance of the authority of the Government in the Southwest: 

Therefore, under and in virtue of the act of Congress entitled “An act to authorize the President of the United States in certain cases to take possession of railroad and telegraph lines, and for other purposes,” approved January 31, 1862, it is—­

Ordered, That the portion of the said railroad line which reaches from Rolla to Lebanon be repaired, extended, and completed, so as to be made available for the military uses of the Government, as speedily as may be.  And inasmuch as, upon the part of the said line from Rolla to the stream called Little Piney a considerable portion of the necessary work has already been done by the railroad company, and the road to this extent may be completed at comparatively small cost, it is ordered that the said line from Rolla to and across Little Piney be first completed, and as soon as possible.