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

Mr. Merrill to Mr. Gunnison.

Yarmouth, December 14, 1863.

Steamer Chesapeake hovering along shore east of Shelburne Saturday night; her purser started by land for Halifax. Gunboat passed here last night four o’clock bound east.

J. M. MERRILL, United States Consular Agent.