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Oct. 5 changed in the least degree the determination of General Butler to enlist men. He opened a camp in Pittsfield, and another in Lowell, and commenced recruiting two regiments of infantry, —one designated the Western Bay-State Regiment, the other the Eastern Bay-State Regiment; also, a battery of light artillery, and three companies of cavalry. The only reply made to the letter of the 5th is the following, which is given entire:— headquarters Department of New England, Boston, Oct. 12, 1861. Will His Excellency Governor Andrew assign to General Butler the recruitment of a regiment of Massachusetts volunteers, and a squadron of mounted men, to be armed and equipped by him, under the authority of the President; the officers to be selected by General Butler, but commissioned by His Excellency, with, of course, a veto power upon what may be deemed an improper selection. As these officers are to go with General Butler upon duty, would His Excellency think it improper he sho