Mr. Wharton to Mr. Pacheco .

[Telegram.]

Mr. Wharton advises Mr. Pacheco that the Department is in receipt of two telegrams from the minister of foreign affairs of Salvador, dated the 8th and 9th instant, respectively, the first complaining of the refusal of the City of Panama to surrender Lisandro Letona, said to be charged with common crimes, the second informing the Department that sentence of confiscation had been pronounced against the steamer because of its leaving port without the permission of the captain of the port and pending trial. Mr. Pacheco is informed that the confiscation of the steamer appears to the Department, from the meager facts reported to it, to be unwarranted, and is instructed to protest by telegraph immediately against any arbitrary action. He is also informed that the United States consul at San Salvador has telegraphed the Department that the Salvadorian authorities proposed to seize the steamer when it arrived at Acajutla.