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An engagement expected.

Charleston, dispatch to the Courier, from Montgomery, Ala., says:

‘ "Fort Pike has been taken by Louisiana.

"The Federal troops have stationed all the forts in Pensacola harbor except Fort Pickens, where they have concentrated. Three hundred men have left Mobile to surprise Fort Pickens."


[Second Dispatch.]

New Orleans Jan. 11.
--Forts Jackson and St. Phillips, on the Mississippi, and Fort Pike, at the entrance of Lake Pontchartrain, have been seized by New Orleans troops. There was no resistance.

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