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gence: If there is faith in man we may rely on the assurances we have as to the status. Time is essential to a peaceful issue of this mission. In the present posture of affairs precipitation is war. We are all agreed. The next day General Beauregard was informed by telegram from Mr. L. P. Walker, the Confederate secretary of war, that the probability is if there be any reliance on rumors, semi-official in their character, that Fort Sumter will be shortly abandoned. It was at this date, March 21st, that Mr. Seward repeated to the Confederate commissioners through Judge Campbell that the failure to evacuate Fort Sumter was not the result of bad faith, but was attributable to causes consistent with the intention to fulfill the engagement. On the same day, Captain Fox arrived at Charleston, and calling on Governor Pickens obtained from him a passport to Sumter, expressly upon the pledge of pacific purposes, and going at once, arrived at the fort late at night. Here he held a confide