Q. What time did you send them?
A. That was about four o'clock in the morning.
Q. When did you inform the Governor that you had issued a proclamation?
A. Not until eight or nine o'clock that morning in another dispatch that the Governor produced. The proclamation really had not gone out then.
Q. Did you inform him before or after the proclamation had gone out to the public?
A. I think the proclamation went over the wires about that time, but it had not really become a proclamation and about the time…. I did not recollect of anything of moment or importance occurring between that time of the sending of that dispatch, about the proclamation, which was read here on Saturday, until some time during the morning. I sent a … General Pearson, to know how things were progressing, what things had been done, and at two o'clock I received a reply, which appears in my report, on page 2. It left Pittsburgh one-fifty-eight, P.M. Reads as follows, addressed to me:
Pittsburgh, July 20, 1877—1.58, P.M.
General James W. Latta, Harrisburg:
I have ordered out all my infantry and two sections of Hutchinson's battery. The Eighteenth regiment, under command of Colonel Guthrie, are at Torrens station, where several hundred determined rioters are assembled, and defy the officers of the law. The Fourteenth and Nineteenth I will station between the Union depot and East Liberty. At the outer depot, fifteen hundred or two thousand men are congregated, and refuse to allow the passage of any freight trains. I will station the artillery at that point. It will require a strong hand to quell the disturbances, and disperse the mob. Thinking it better to overawe the mob by an appearance of strategy, and to save bloodshed, I have ordered out my command as above. A portion of the eighteenth regiment were on duty at eight o'clock, A.M.
A. L. Pearson,
Major General.