legitimate share of Mexico, and it strikes me an able man ought to go to Spain immediately to have a full understanding with the cabinet at Madrid.

F. W. PICKNES.

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MONTGOMERY, March 29, 1861.

Governor F. W. PICKENS,

Charleston:

General Beauregard will designate agent to receive 2,000 percussion muskets, for which I am much obliged.

L. P. WALKER.

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CHARLESTON, March 30, 1861.

Honorable L. P. WALKER,

Secretary of War:

Received you telegram, and deliver this morningw with pleasure the 2,000 muskets to Captain Lee for General Beauregard, according to your desire. Everything quiet, but must be some action soon.

F. W. PICKENS.

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WASHINGTON, April 4, 1861.

General L. P. WALKER,

Secretary of War, Motgomery, Ala.:

NY DEAR SIR: In my former letters to you, written two weeks since, I expressed doubt as to the good faith and pacific policy of the Government at Washington. A careful observation of their movements since has only served to confirm these opinions, and number of concurrent circumstances, taken with the opinion of persons have having good opportunities for acquiring information, satisfy me that they are pursuing a hostile and treacherous policy. A Virginia submissionist came up here the other day to get some pacific assurances from Lincoln and Seward. He hold a gentlemen afterward that their answers were vague and unsatisfactory. Yet his position was such, and the course of Virginia so doubtfull, as he would put it, as to make them have a strong desire to give any help they could to the Union party there. A gentleman much mixed up with navy officers, of excellent judgment, told me to-day that he was convinced that they inteneded to re-enforce Sumter and Pickens and blockade the mount of the Mississippi; that the naval officers were all advising coercion, and that there was unusual activity in fitting out vessels for sea. Another gentleman, who sees much of the Cabinet and the Navy Department, expressed the opinion to-day that a war policy was resolved on. It seems the Senate and North-western pressure for war on the Administration has been very powerful, and I am satisfied that Lincoln's own feelings and theories of duty all run on the side of ceorcion. It appears to me the Administration is concentrating its resources for a blow. In writing to you before I put the case less strongly than my convictions, because others here, with opportunities to from a judgment, thought differently; but every development-everything that can be construed into a development of official intention-confirms what I wrote. The tide of sentiment is running strong in Virginia for secession. We are fighting bravely, vigorously, and will triumph in the end. We have all the enthusiasm. I take it