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He says they have plenty of provisions, enough to last two years; also plenty of ammunition, except percussion caps, and they have a committee, who have a large number of men engaged to devise means of getting them, under any kind of pretence, dead or alive. He says there are several persons now in the Northern cities trying to get a sufficient supply. Jefferson Davis had notified Gov. Letcher of his intention to take command of the troops, and would plan the operations of attack.--Col Lee and Gen. Beauregard would have command of a force of several thousand. My informant further says that he was told that there were five men who had taken an oath to assassinate President Lincoln and Gen. Scott, if it cost them their lives. They are to go direct to Washington, and will attempt their purpose as soon as the first conflict takes place. My informant is a highly respectable gentleman, and I give the above points as he gave them to me, with this exception, that they are no