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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams

No. 1277.]

Department of State. Washington, February 21, 1865.

Sir. Your despatch of the 3d instant, No. 869, calling my attention to the report of the charge of the chief justice of the court of common pleas in the case of the steamer Peterhoff, and the proceedings in the case of Mr. Rumble, contained in the copies of the Times accompanying it, has been received. The opinions will receive careful examination. We wait the end of the Rumble case.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles Francis Adams. Esq.,&c.,&c., London.