COMMUNICATION FROM GOV. OF KENTUCKY,

Bowling Green, Ky.-, Nov. 21, 1861.

His Excellency, Jefferson Davis,

President of the Confederate States of America:

Sir: The Convention which assembled at Russellville, Ky., on the 18th of this month, and which organized the Provisional Government of Kentucky, appointed the Hon. William Preston, the Hon. Henry C. Burnett, and the Hon. Wm. E. Simms, Commissioners "to the Government of the Confederate States of America, with power to negotiate and treat with said Confederate States for the earliest practicable admission of Kentucky into the government of said Confederate States of America," and I have the honor to accredit them to your government as Commissioners for that purpose. With assurances of my high regard and esteem, I am, sir, your obedient servant, (Signed.) GEORGE W. JOHNSON,

Provisional Governor of Kentucky.