On the receipt of your favor of the 5th I enquired whether the public store had been robbed of the Articles you mention as being found upon the Teamsters—I am informed it has not.

I am sorry to say that the Recruits from Connecticut yet come in very slowly, and I fear except prospects are much mended since I was at Hartford that few may be expected—You will be pleased to inform me what were the numbers at the different places of rendezvous, by the last accounts which you had been able to collect. I am &c.