Office of the Historian

[516] *Mr. McCoy, district attorney, to Mr. Cushing, Attorney-General.

Office United States Attorney,
Eastern District of Louisiana, April 9, 1856.

Sir: This morning I have given peremptory instructions to the marshal of this district to search the Charles Morgan, a steamship advertised to leave this port to-morrow morning for Nicaragua, and report to this office by 5 o’clock p.m., and at 8 o’clock a.m. to-morrow, the 10th, the result of his investigation.

The object of these instructions, so peremptory, is to carry out your instructions of date 8th of December, 1855, and to maintain the integrity of the act of Congress of 1818 and our treaty stipulations with Great Britain.

The report, should it be made, will be immediately forwarded to your Department.

I am yours, truly,

T. S. McCOY.

Hon. Caleb Cushing,
Attorney-General United States, Washington, D. C.