_To whom sold._ _No._ _1860. _Arsenals. Date of Sale._ Where sold._ J. W. Zacharie & Co. 4,000 Feb. 3 St. Louis. James T. Ames 1,000 Mar. 14 New York. Captain G. Barry 80 June 11 St. Louis. W. C. N. Swift 400 Aug. 31 Springfield. do. 80 Nov. 13 do. State of Alabama 1,000 Sep. 27 Baton Rouge. do. 2,500 Nov. 14 do. State of Virginia 5,000 Nov. 6 Washington. Phillips county, Ark. 50 Nov. 16 St. Louis. G. B. Lamar 10,000 Nov. 24 Watervliet. The arms were all flint-lock muskets altered to percussion, and were all sold at $2.50 each, except those purchased by Captain G. Barry and by the Phillips county volunteers, for which $2 each were paid. The Mobile _Advertiser_ says: “During the past year 135,430 muskets have been quietly transferred from the Northern Arsenal at Springfield alone, to those in the Southern States. We are much obliged to Secretary Floyd for the foresight he has thus displayed in disarming the North and _equipping the South for this emergency_. There is no telling the quantity of arms and munitions which were sent South from other Northern arsenals. There is no doubt but that every man in the South who can carry a gun can now be supplied from private or public sources. The Springfield contribution alone would arm all the militiamen of Alabama and Mississippi.” General Scott, in his letter of December 2d, 1862, on the early history of the Rebellion, states that “Rhode Island, Delaware and Texas had not drawn, at the end of 1860, their annual quotas of arms for that year, and Massachusetts, Tennessee, and Kentucky only in part; Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Kansas were, by order of the Secretary of War, supplied with their quotas for 1861 in advance, and Pennsylvania and Maryland in part.” This advance of arms to eight Southern States is in addition to the transfer, about the same time, of 115,000 muskets to Southern arsenals, as per Mr. Stanton’s report. Governor Letcher of Virginia, in his Message of December, 1861, says, that for some time prior to secession, he had been engaged in purchasing arms, ammunition, etc.; among which were 13 Parrott rifled cannon, and 5,000 muskets. He desired to buy from the United States Government 10,000 more, when buying the 5,000, but he says “the authorities declined to sell them to us, although five times the number were then in the arsenal at Washington.” Had Jefferson Davis’ bill relative to the purchase of arms become a law, the result might have been different.