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

Mr. F. W. Seward to Mr. Harvey.

No. 146.]

Department of State, Washington , August 30, 1864.

Sir:Your despatches Nos. 287, 288, and 289, the last dated July 28, have been received. The change effected by you in the practice of the provincial authorities at St. Paul de Loanda, concerning the registers of American ships during their stay in that port, removes what must have been a serious inconvenience to our commerce in that quarter, and you have the thanks of the department for your efforts in this behalf.

Your observations relative to the proposed inter-continental telegraph to connect the eastern and western hemispheres, by the way of Behring’s Straits, have been read with much interest.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

F. W. SEWARD, Acting Secretary.

James E. Harvey, Esq., &c., &c., &c., Lisbon.