No. 386.
Mr. Frelinghuysen to Mr. Valera.
Washington, May 10, 1884.
The Secretary of State presents his compliments to the minister of Spain, and communicates hereby the substance of a telegram received by the Secretary of the Treasury from Special Agent E. Hubbs, now in Florida, viz, to the effect that Castro left for a neighboring key on May 8, after sunset, with a few men in a small boat, and that he (the agent) had sent the Dix, by anticipation, at midday to intercept him and to watch suspected points, and that a naval detachment followed at 11 o’clock; also, that, according to the Spanish consul, who desired this information to be sent to His Majesty’s legation here, still another expedition is nearly ready to start.