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John A. Andrew, Governor of Massachusetts. No words of ours can add to the respect and esteem with which General Lander was held by the people of this Commonwealth; and no words of eulogy can be added which would give significance and strength to the letter we have just quoted. March 28.—The Governor wrote to Mr. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, by which it appears that Mr. Fox had sent to the Governor a copy of a letter taken out of a pocket of a secesh pea-jacket by Commodore D. D. Porter, commanding the fleet at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and which related to a Mrs. Sarah A. Blich, of Holmes Hole, who, it appeared, had been giving information to the rebels at New Orleans. Inquiry was made by the Governor, and it was ascertained that a person of that name resided there. He writes,— She is a native of New Orleans, and was married to Blich last spring. Her maiden name was Sarah A. Stickney. She has a brother in the South, named William Stickney, who i