NEW YORK, March 18, 1861.

His Excellency Governor BROWN:

The ten cases of arms were delivered, and are on the way to Savannah.

G. B. LAMarch

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WASHINGTON, March 18, 1861.

His Excellency JEFFERSON DAVIS:

Breckinridge has made a magnificient speech, bold, open, definite, wholly right, and unmistakably with us.

LOUIS T. WIGFALL.

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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

Milledgeville, March 19, 1861.

Honorable L. P. WALKER,

Secretary of War:

DEAR SIR: I have just received notice from your adjutant that Lieutenants Berry, Willis, and Barrow are ordered to Fort Pulaski for duty, with instructions to report to the commanding officer there. I consider it necessary that I countinue to occupy Fort Pulaski with State troops till the Confederate States have sufficient force there to hold it. With this object I have ordred the regular troops of this State to relieve the volunteers and occupy the fort you have assumed the control of it with sufficient force. The volunteer corps there have been fully officered. The regulars sent there will be commnad by their own officers. In the state of the case will you have the kindness to inform me what service you except these lieutenants to render and what command they are excepted to assume while the State troops remain in the fort? Pardon me for calling your attention to another matter. In January last I ordered and artillery company from Macon to take position on Saint Simon's Island and guard the entrace of the Brunswick Harbor, to keep out pirates, &c. This company is still at Fort Brown, on the island. They now desire to be relived. As the Confederate States now assumes control of all the military operations of this character along the coast, you will please inform me whether you wish a company continued at that point or whether the troops may now return to their homes. There is probably less necessity for the services of the company on Saint Simon's since we have a boat and c in the inland waters of the State. I am not prepared, however, to say that the services of a company at that point may not still be necessary. I shall be glad to know your wishes in the premises.

I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JOSEPH E. BROWN.

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CHARLESTON, S. C., March 21, 1861.

CRAWFORD, FORSYTH, and ROMAN,

Commissioners, Washington, D. C.:

Sumter not evacuated; no indications whatever of it. Anderson workin still on its defenses*.

G. T. BEAUREGARD,

General.

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* This in reply to Crawford, Forsyth, and Roman, VOL. I, p. 277.

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