Private.] . . . . . . . . . . .[STATE OF FLORIDA,] . . . . . . . . EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
January 10, 1861.
Hon. JNO. C. McGEHEE, President of the Convention:
SIR: The inclosed dispatch has this morning reached me, and I hasten to transmit it through you to the Convention.
Very respectfully,
M. S. PERRY.
[Inclosure]
(By telegraph from Washington, dated January 9, 1861. )
For Governor PERRY:
Federal troops are said to be moving, or to move, on the Pensacola forts. Every hour is important. Georgia and Alabama if called will aid in the work, we think. The two seaboard forts are vacant. Chase, at Pensacola, built and knows the works.
S. R. MALLORY.
GEORGE S. HAWKINS.
D. L. YULEE.