Unknown to THomas A. Scott, June 15, 1863

(Received 4.20 a. m.) Col. THomas A. Scott, Washington:

Your dispatch received. The plan seems good. Your telegram is, of course, general, and we cannot decide upon details which will require good faith incarrying out. Idesire you, therefore, to signify my i Shan and that you will remain and get the details, as far as may be now needed, arranged to the best advantage. Get the most liberal arrangements youcan. I remark, however, that the danger is so imminent it is no time to be technical. The men to be called into service should have every assurance. I will keep dispatch private, excepting a general announcement that a call of the militia for 50,000 men will be made at once. ‘To this there can be no objection.

Let me hear from you, that I may announce the matter at the

earliest moment.

WaR DEPARTMENT, June 15, 1863—3 a. m. Hon. THomas M. Howe, Pittsburgh:

The President issues proclamation this morning for 100,000 men, 50,000 of them from Pennsylvania, to serve six months, unless sooner discharged. General Government will provide for them fully, so that private financial arrangement will not be required.

The danger is imminent, and the people must be aroused and come forth promptly to prevent invasion. The rebels are moving north in largeforce. The advance columns of Lee’s army are now at Martinsburg.

(Oopy to J. Edgar Thompson, Highteenth and Spruce streets, Philadelphia. )