Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part II

Mr. Seward to Viscount Treilhard.

Department of State, Washington, October 16, 1862.

Sir: Referring to your note of the 6th instant, in which, among other things, allusion is made to certain lots of sugar belonging to Messrs. Richard Aldige & Company and to Messrs. Goodchaux, deposited in the government warehouses at New Orleans, and to my reply, I now have the honor to inform you that, from information just received from the Treasury Department on the subject, it appears that instructions were given to the acting collector at New Orleans on the 26th ultimo, concerning the delivery of goods from the government warehouses, which will cover the cases in question.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Viscount Treilhard, &c., &c., &c.