Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the fifth instant, requesting him to "cause to be laid before it, a statement of the effective force, now comprising the military establishment of the United States; also, a statement of the different posts and garrisons, at, and within, which troops are stationed, and the actual number of officers, noncommissioned officers, and privates, at each post and garrison respectively; also, to designate in such statement the number of artillerists, and the number of calibre of ordnance at each of the said posts and garrisons." | lit.salon