Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume I

Mr. Preston, Secretary of the Navy, to Captain McCauley, United States Navy.

[Confidential.]

Navy Department, August 14, 1849.

[682] Sir: The Department has intrusted to Lieutenant-Commandant W. W. Hunter confidential instructions which require his early departure from Washington. You will therefore be pleased to expedite the preparation of the United States steamer Alleghany under his command, and render every facility to accomplish that object.

Very respectfully, yours, &c.,

• WM. BALLARD PRESTON.
• Captain Charles S. McCauley,
  Commanding United States Navy-Yard, Washington.