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FRIDAY MORNING. {, TCBER 81, 1861.

The pip-r WHICH Cen Scott sent 10 tie
Washington Inte'tgsnoer for publication,
dated March 80, 1861. embodying his views
and plans while be WIS G-neral-in-chi,l I. for
the prevention Of the rebellion. is in sub
stance as follows. lie says that on the 30th
OF OerOber .lS60,be called Presi ent Buchan-
su's sttentirn to the necessity Of putting
strong garris3ns in all the forts below the
principal ssabJsrd cities cf the South, tspec-
lady Pensacola. On she u Of Deem Der,
he personally urged this measure upon the
Secretary Of War, (Floyd) aud showed him
! where we're tro Ips that could b at once
sent. 1.-The Secretary did not concur in my
! my vIews." Ga the 18th OF December,
/ Gen. Sc1tt urged the matter again On both
the Presiden, and Secretary, with 10 better
success, the former wishing to wait and rec
If South Carolina would not send Commits
ri0ners to negotiate. On the 2Sth Of De-
center, after Anderson 5 evacuation OF Font
Muulirie. Gen. Scott seut d note - Secretary
Floyd, (wi Ich he gives in fuiD begging him
u send $50 men - TeIBioTcs Anderson, and
one or two armed vssseis, ana urging him to
reIEfoJcs the other tdris along the coast at
once. On the 3Oth. .he seut a note to the Pres
iient, asking leave to send without reference
- the War Department, an armed vessel and
go men wiki supplies u Fort SImler. Il
was ali Of D. avail. The traitor Floyd and
the knave Buchanan refused TO carry out
Ills plan-, which Floyd himself, in publish
ID speech delivered at Richmond-p4rt Of
which Gen. Scott qlCses-says wJuli have
been certain Of SUCCESS, and would have pre-.
vented the existence ot the Southern Con-
federacy.
Gen. Scott says Fort Sumter could have
been reinforced any time up to the I2th of
Feb. 1861, and Sc. Holt and himself en-
deay5--d in VAIN to get a ship of war for the
purr.-. SEC. TouceY making difieulu's
ab.u- tal waut Of suitable vessels Fiuallv
Gen. scott Vas forced TO charter q merclan;
slraluet, the Star OF the " es,. whose uusuc-
crsslll attempt to enter Charleston H4rbor
.- atll rrm -mhered.
II ,,.s not until the ; of Jan. 1861. G-n
- % = o.. that he could g-t the leave he
-lg~ptly a>a,d J.. Oc.oDer. % order the cIm-
..ardrre oI q. e other oaat4.n. For,s To Re
"a tn,u seatd, ne q ,Jtes the ordrr uf
Juat date sent 10 L ut. S.ru.aer a. 7. ns.-
cola. \, I.rrui.-siou cuuid be = Z, hoWeyeI.
% fstfpo. Turl Pickens Tie Pl--i.eut
O, ~ ia4t the .rl w4s no 4 se!y 40 be at
tacke1. i Tie GJysrnmrnt did rot st,r 10
-rrrnatari IL. y hen he did Mt, the e
,ppeare. " Tie want as aoEai, Of d suita /
naval vessel - and ~ wa- not tili the y o
Jan. ;h4t The Bso1k yu. -r,.I ogs eompIHy. .
eft fr ? us4sol4. o. the 29.n. ord 70 l
were s,as by II il and ,oucey to Lieutenant .
semIler and tae cummand-r- OF tn naval /
:,Icv' 10 commit no acts OF hostility and /
10 10 lana C,it. Vudees CO, unless tie Fo.t 4
should b, attack q, - landing " hich G-n.
ScJu -ays il wus " ell known at the Navy De /
partmcnt would BE- useless after tie FIt /
was attacked. These orders G-n. Scott Gays /
he did not ses tlil the 75th Of March. lie /
suTposed the gussi-aI misIice wus consequent
upun ;te meeting Of the Peace conventiyu,
and uo. upon agreement with the rebels az
Pensacola and b. arning Of the active Mill
t4ry PREPARATIONS made by tue rebels at PEN
s.co,a, Ae "a the l2.h of March procl ed
order 10 he sent to Capt. Vodgeu to land his
omIa., and reinforce Lieut.. Slemmer
Gen. Scott say it was not ull the i,h OF
January that by the help OF oiSscretary Holt,
Il loyal man, he gos leave 70 reinforce the
forts at Tortugas and Key West, and that
;bree days longer delay would have Put them
IN possession OF the rebels, and with them,
hey might have purchased an early Eur O.
pcan recognition.
No more damning proof could bs addUced
Of the tIsitorous leanings Of Buchanan and
the active assistance gwen to this rebels by
FLOYD and Toucey, than this communication
OF Ga. Sc)tt's.