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Governor Watts, of Alabama. --The topics of Governor Watts's message to the Alabama Legislature are:--The finances, salt, cotton cards, the university, the pay of quartermaster-general and public printers, fines for crimes and misdemeanors, the militia, soldiers' families, the meeting of Governors at Augusta, and convention of States. The Montgomery Advertiser says: "The people of the State will be glad to read the explicit denial of their Governor that he was privy to, or favored tGovernor Watts's message to the Alabama Legislature are:--The finances, salt, cotton cards, the university, the pay of quartermaster-general and public printers, fines for crimes and misdemeanors, the militia, soldiers' families, the meeting of Governors at Augusta, and convention of States. The Montgomery Advertiser says: "The people of the State will be glad to read the explicit denial of their Governor that he was privy to, or favored the resolution of the Governors which has been construed as looking to the policy of arming slaves. He is only in favor of using the slaves as laborers in the various departments of the army in which they can be employed to advantage, and is opposed to freeing them on any account. His objections to the proposed convention of States, both on the grounds of principle and impracticability, are conclusive, and, since the re-election of Lincoln, has closed the door to all negotiation, except on term