No. 313.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. White.

No. 570.]

Sir: Your dispatch No. 459, of the 5th instant, communicating to the Department the intelligence that one George F. Anderson, lately engaged in the fictitious estates business, was found guilty on trial of obtaining money under false pretenses and sentenced to five years’ penal servitude, has been received and read with satisfaction. The contents of your dispatch will be given to the press for the information of the public.

I am, etc.,

T. F. Bayard.