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The Daily Dispatch: March 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Army of the Southern Confederacy. (search)
inted Sixth Auditor.-- A. G. Hall, of Washington, special Mail agent for Maryland and Virginia. It is estimated that there are between five and ten thousand applications for appointment connected with the Post Office Department. Nineteen clerks are daily engaged in opening and registering letters. Situations in other departments are as numerously sought for. The Senate made the following confirmations Saturday: Col. Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant General; Maj. Townsend, sen., Assistant; W. A. Nichols, D. C. Buell, Theo. Talbott, B. C. Drum and J. B. Fry, Assistants, with the rank of Captain. It is not ascertained yet that any order has been issued by the Presidential authorities in regard to the evacuation of Fort Sumter, an event, however, which is considered will soon occur, from circumstances beyond Executive control; but, from what is actually known, a formal surrender of the fort is not anticipated. Gov. Roman, one of the Confederate States Commissioners, telegraphed f