ALBERT MATHIEU, United States Vice-Consul to Allan A. Burton, Bogota, August 28, 1865

Mr. Mathieu to Mr. Burton

Sir: In answer to your private note of the 13th instant, I have to report to you officially that Julian J. Berrios, who, in March, 1864, ordered the steamer Antioquia to be fired into, has been, during three or four months, contactor general del estado—that is, as far as September or October, 1864; that he was appointed governor of the province of Magangue, and was governor when the late revolution broke out; and, finally, that he is now in Ocaña, or its neighborhood. He is called Doctor Berrios, not a pyhsician, but a lawyer, and was born in that part of the country.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,