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am's despatch, written by the light of a few pine knots and with as much care as if it had been an important state paper,-for whatever Sam Hardwicke did he tried to do well,-was in these words:-

To Major General Jackson,

Commanding Department of the South-West,

Mobile, Alabama.

General:

I arrived with my party to-day. In Pensacola, I