[CHAP. LXIV.

[WASHINGTON, D. C.,] January 12, 1861.

Colonel JOHN McRAE,

WILMINGTON, N. C.:

Astonished at your information. Impossible! Cannot comprehend. Please go immediately down. I cannot leave. Soutter here. Send me by telegraph all particulars.

D. L. YULEE.

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HEADQUARTERS,
Montgomery, January 12, 1861.

Colonel D. LEADBETTER,

Aide - de Camp, Mobile, Ala.:

COLONEL: Governor Moore is in receipt of your report of the capture of mount Vernon arsenal, and requests me to express to you his entire satisfaction and gratification at the manner in which you and the officers and troops under your command have discharged your duty in that enterprise. The charge for the steamer appears erroneous. Fifteen hundred dollars of the amount will be paid now, and the balance held over for further inquiry and consideration. No disposition of the arms or public property taken in the forts can be made at present. The Governor regrets, therefore, that he cannot comply with Mr. Shepherd's wishes to have the rifles.

Respectfully, &c.,

J. J. SEIBELS,

Aide - de - Camp.

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WASHINGTON, January 12, 1861.

JOHN McRAE,

Wilmington, N. C.:

Yours to Yulee alarms me. Please go down to Florida and act promptly. You have my sanction.

J. T. SOUTTER.

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[WASHNGTON, January 12, 1861.]

Governor MAGOFFIN,

Frankfort, Ky.:

We recommend the apppointment of five commissioners, to be appointed by Kentucky, to meet Virginia commissioners, on 4th of

February, in Washington, for settlement of national difficulties.

J. J. CRITTENDEN.

J. W. STEVENSON.

JOHN YOUNG BROWN.

W. E. SIMMS.

H. C. BURNETT.

W. C. ANDERSON.

L. W. POWELL.

S. R. MALLORY.

SAML. O. PEYTON.

L. T. MOORE.

G. ADAMS.

F. M. BRISTOW.

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