Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress

[Translation.]

Extract from a despatch of Mr. Thouvenel to Mr. Merrier, under date of the 19th of September, 1862.

* * * Towards the end of the last month, the minister of the United States at Paris has unofficially communicated to me a correspondence, exchanged on the 21st of July, between General Butler, superior commander at New Orleans, and the federal commissioner of customs of that city, the purpose of which was to insure every desirable facility for the free exportation of the productions of Louisiana.

In a quite recent and also unofficial communication, Mr. Dayton has just brought to my knowledge a new document, from which it appears that General Sherman had published at Memphis an order from Major General Grant removing all prohibitions or restrictions interrupting the transportation and sale of cotton in the market of that city.