A Letter From Mrs. Lincoln

lt has boen pubhshed in tlc BOtíthelH papers that the sympathies of the Preaident's wife are with the secessionists. - The füllowing very handsome leltor, re ceived by one of our fellow-Kentuckians, does not indícate it . Executive Mansion, June 20. " Colonbl John Pky - My Dear Sir: It gives me vory great pleasure to be the medium of transmission of these weap0U8. to be used in the defenae of national sovereiguty upon the soil of Kentucky. "Though some years have passed since I left my native State, I have never ceased to contémplate hev progresa in happiness and prosperity with sentiments of fond and filial pride. In every effort of industrial energy, in evory enterprise of honor and valor, my heart has been with her. And I rejoice in the consciousness that, at this time, when the institutions to whose fostering care we owe all that we have of happinness and glory are rudely assailed by ungrateful and parricidul hands, the 8tato of Kentucky, ever true and loyal, furnishea to the insulted flag of the Union, a guard of her best and bravest sons. On every field the prowess of Kentuckians lias been manifested. In the holy causo of nationje defence tliey must be invincible. " Picase accept, sir, these vrcapons as a token of the love I shall never cease to cherish for my mother State, of the pride witli which I have ever regarded the exploits of her sons, and of the confidenoe which I feol in the ultin.ate loyalty of her people, who, while tiever forgetting the homage which thcir beloved state may justly claim, still remember the higher and grander allegiance due to our common country. " Yours very sincerely, ■ MAKY LINCOLN."