[CHAP. LXIV.

MONTGOMERY, January 15, 1861.

Honorable WILLIAM M. BROOKS,

President of Convention:

SIR: I have received a notification that my company, the Warrior Guards, Tuscaloosa County, starts to day for Fort Morgan, by order of the Governor, and it is my duty as well as my inclination to join it forthwoth. I therefore resign my place as secretary to your honorable body.

Respectfully,

W. H. FOWLER.

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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

Montgomery, Ala., January 15, 1861.

Captain R. P. BLOUNT,

Brewersville, Ala.:

SIR: Your letter to the Governor, asking to be ordered in the service, also for arms, &c., has been duly received, and the Governor directs me to say to you that it has become necessary to cease the issue of arms for the present to all troops except those who are ordered into actual sercice. He requests that you hold your company ready to move at the shortest notice, thinking it probable that he may need your services at no distant day.

Resppectfully, your obedient servant,

J. J. SEIBELS,

Aide - de - Camp.

N. B. - When ordered into service, arms, accouterments, &c., will be issued to you at the point to which you are ordered to rendezvous.

J. J. S.

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[WASHINGTON, D. C.,] January 15, 1861.

His Excellency M. S. PERRY,

Governor of Florida, Tallahassee:

We have ceased participation in the proceedings of Senate, and only await receipt of authenticated ordinance to retire formally.

D. B. YULEE.

S. R. MALLORY.

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[WASHINGTON, D. C., January 15,] 1861.

Colonel W. H. CHASE,

Pensacola:

It is charged that the correspondence of the Governor through the mails has been interfered with in the post - office by the State autorities. Let the postmaster send a dispatch.

D. L. YULEE.

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WASHINGTON, January 15, 1861.

Major W. H. CHASE,

Pensacola, Fla.:

Value of ordnance stores at Pensacola yard $ 117, 000 including Dahlgren howitzers; very useful.

S. R. MALLORY.

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