and we fear amputation will be necessary. My little nephew, namesake (one year and a half old), has been at death's door, but is improving. I except every hour to hear that Abolition Republican rule is struck down and wiped out the Southern Confederacy; that Sumter and Pickens are taken, and the whole Shout aroused to their true interests, and united from Mason and Dixon's line to the Gulf. Lovell joins me in kindest regards and best wishes for yourself and inquiring friends. Success attend you.

As ever, your friend,

G. W. SMITH.

The goods may possibly be shipped to your name, care of the respective collectors at Charleston and New Orleans.

[1.]

CHARLESTON, March 6, 1861

Honorable C. G. MEMMINGER:

Coasting vessels report that the buoys have been replaces by the Government of the United States upon Saint Helena Bar and the mouth of the Combahee.

[1.] A. G. MAGRATH.

SPECIAL ORDERS,
HDQRS. ARMY OF CONFEDERATE STATES, No.-.
Charleston, S. C., March 6, 1861.

Captain Stephen D. Lee, of the regular artillery service of the State of South Carolina, is detached form his company, now in Charleston Harbor, and is assigned to duty at these headquarters as acting assistant quatermaster-general and acting assistant commissary-general.

G. T. BEAUREGARD,
[1.] Brigadier-General, Commanding.

WAR DEPARTMENT, C. S. A.,

Montgomery, March 9, 1861.

Major W. H. C. WHITING,

Savannah, Ga.:

MAJOR: Your report of the 2nd instant, reliate to Fort Pulaski, was received some days ago, and my answer has been delayed in order to ascertain the condition of things at Saint Augustine, Fernandina, and Pensacola, there being no official information filed in this Department. No guns can be spared from Pensacola. Senator Yulee, to whom I telegraphed from information in regard to Fernandina, has not replied, and Governor Perry informs the Department that there are no columbiads at Saint Augustine. If there are columbiads at Fernandina, and you will arrange for their transfer at Fort Pulaski, your are authorized to do so, and supply their places with 6 or 12 pounder guns, which will be sufficient, I presume, for the probable needs of the place. You are also authorized to have the platforms, pintle-bocks, traverse-circles, &c., at Fort Clinch transferred to Pulaski. This Department has contracted with the Tredegar Works for thirty 10-inch columbiads, some of which are destined for Fort Pulaski.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

L. P. WALKER,

[6.] Secretary of War.